Ancestry of Muhammad

Lineage of Shaiba ibn Hashim

Shaiba ibn Hashim was the grandfather of Prophet Muhammad, who was the cousin and father-in-law of Ali ibn Abi Talib, who was the fourth and last of the Rightly Guided Caliphs according to Sunni Muslims and the first Imam according to Shia Muslims. According to Arab and Islamic genealogists, the line of Muhammad traces back to Adnan as follows:

Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusai^[1] ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr^[2] ibn Malik ibn An-Nadr ibn Kinanah ibn Khuzaimah ibn Mudrikah ibn Ilyas ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma'ad ibn Adnan.^[3]

Adnan to Ismail

• Adnan
• Udad (Awwad)
• Al-Muqawwim
• Al-Yas'a
• Al-Hamis (Al-Humaisa)
• Nibt (Nobet)
• Salaman (Sulayman)
• Hamal (Haml)
• Qidar (Qaidar) (father of the North Arabian Qedarite tribe that controlled the region between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai Peninsula
• Isma'il (Ishmael)

Ismail to Adam

The following ancestry is as represented in the Bible:

• Isma'il
• Ibrahim Khalil-Ullah (Abraham)
• Ta'rikh (Azar)
• Tahur
• Shahru
• Abraghu (Ra‘u)
• Taligh (Falikh)
• Abir
• Shale' (Shalikh)
• Arfakhad (Arfakhshad)
• Sam - the Semitic family/race, which encompass a large group of families
• Nuh (Noah)
• Lumuk (Lamik)
• Mutu Shalkh (Mutwashlack)
• Akhnukh (who is said to be Prophet Idris)
• Yarad (Yarid)
• Mahla'il
• Qinan (Qainan)
• Anush (Anusha)
• Sheeth
• Adam Abu'l-Bashar (Adam)^[4]

See also

• Ahl al-Bayt
• Family tree of Muhammad
• Ancestry of Qusai ibn Kilab
• Descent from Adnan to Muhammad
• Banu Hashim
• Banu Quraysh
• Banu Kinanah
• Banu Mudhar

References

1. Lings, Martin (1983). Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. George Allen & Unwin. p. 6. ISBN 0946621330.
2. Armstrong, Karen (2001). Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Phoenix. p. 66. ISBN 0946621330.
3. Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad. The Life of Muhammad. Oxford University Press. p. 4.
4. Firestone et al., 2001, pp. 11-12. This list of names is based on the work of a 16th-century Syrian scholar. Alternate transliterations of the Arabic appear in parentheses. For those names that have articles, which use the most common English name, the article has been linked, but the name appears as transliterated from the Arabic.

Bibliography

• Firestone, Reuven; American Jewish Committee Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding (2001), Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., ISBN 9780881257243