Family tree of Muhammad

This family tree is about the relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a family member of the family of Hashim and the Quraysh tribe which is ‘Adnani.^[1][2][3][4] According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad descends from the Islamic prophet Ishmael through the Hashem tribe.^[a]

Prophet Muhammad's family tree

Kilab ibn Murrah

Fatimah bint Sa'd

Zuhrah ibn Kilab (progenitor of Banu Zuhrah) maternal great-great-grandfather

Qusai ibn Kilab paternal great-great-great-grandfather

Hubba bint Hulail paternal great-great-great-grandmother

`Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah maternal great-grandfather

`Abd Manaf ibn Qusai paternal great-great grandfather

Atikah bint Murrah paternal great-great-grandmother

Wahb ibn `Abd Manaf maternal grandfather

Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf (progenitor of Banu Hashim) paternal great-grandfather

Salma bint `Amr paternal great-grandmother

Fatimah bint `Amr paternal grandmother

`Abdul-Muttalib paternal grandfather

Halah bint Wuhayb paternal step-grandmother

Amina mother

`Abdullah father

Az-Zubayr paternal uncle

Harith paternal half-uncle

Hamza paternal half-uncle

Thuwaybah first nurse

Halimah second nurse

Abu Talib paternal uncle

`Abbas paternal half-uncle

Abu Lahab paternal half-uncle

6 other sonsand 6 daughters

Muhammad

Khadija first wife

`Abd Allah ibn `Abbas paternal cousin

Fatima daughter

Ali paternal cousin and son-in-law family tree, descendants

Qasim son

`Abd Allah son

Zainab daughter

Ruqayya daughter

Uthman second cousin and son-in-lawfamily tree

Umm Kulthum daughter

Zayd adopted son

Ali ibn Zainab grandson

Umamah bint Zainab granddaughter

`Abd Allah ibn Uthman grandson

Rayhana bint Zayd wife (disputed)

Usama ibn Zayd adoptive grandson

Muhsin ibn Ali grandson

Hasan ibn Ali grandson

Husayn ibn Ali grandsonfamily tree

Umm Kulthum bint Ali granddaughter

Zaynab bint Ali granddaughter

Safiyya tenth wife

Abu Bakr father-in-lawfamily tree

Sawda second wife

Umar father-in-lawfamily tree

Umm Salama sixth wife

Juwayriya eighth wife

Maymuna eleventh wife

Aisha third wifeFamily tree

Zaynab bint Khuzayma fifth wife

Hafsa fourth wife

Zaynab bint Jahsh seventh wife

Umm Habiba ninth wife

Maria al-Qibtiyya twelfth wife-Disputed

Ibrahim son

• * indicates that the marriage order is disputed
• Note that direct lineage is marked in bold.

Genealogy

Muhammad to Adnan

According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad descended from Adnan.^[7] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad.^[4] His Ancestors were generally referred to by their laqabs or titles, names will be mentioned alongside each title.

Muhammad's ancestors to Murrah

• AD 570 – Muhammad
• AD 545 – Abdullah
• AD 497 – Abd al-Muttalib (Shaybah)
• AD 464 – Hashim (Amr)
• AD 439 – Abd Manaf (Al-Mugheerah)
• AD 406 – Qusayy (Zayd)
• AD 373 – Kilab (Hakeem)
• AD 340 – Murrah
• AD 307 – Ka'b
• AD 274 – Lu'ayy
• AD 241 – Ghalib
• AD 208 – Fihr
• AD 175 – Malik
• AD 142 – An-Nadr (Quraysh)^[8]
• AD 109 – Kinanah (Kinana Tribe)
•   AD 76 – Khuzaymah
•   AD 43 – Mudrikah ('Amer)
•   AD 10 – Al-Yas
•   23 BC – Mudar
•   56 BC – Nizar
•   89 BC – Ma'add
• 122 BC – Adnan

Adnan to Isma'il

Islamic tradition and Arabic oral genetic tradition agree that the lineage from Adnan to Isma'il is lost. Nevertheless, there are records that survived, although they are deemed mere speculations by most scholars.^[9]

'Adnan was the ancestor of the 'Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia and a direct descendant of Isma'il.^[9] It is not confirmed how many generations are between them; however, Adnan was fairly close to him. According to the Hebrew Bible, Isma'il had twelve sons who are said to have become twelve tribal chiefs throughout the regions from Havilah to Shur (from Assyria to the border of Egypt).^[10]

Genealogists differ from which son of Isma'il the main line of descent came, either his eldest son Nabeet or Al-Nabt (Nebaioth), or his second son Qidar (Kedar) was the father of the North Arabian people that controlled the region between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai Peninsula.

Ibrahim to Adam

Scholars, both Islamic and Secular, agree that the narrations considering Ibrahim's lineage to Adam are mythology.^[11] Most of the lineage is borrowed from Hebrew tradition or Isra'iliyyat.

It is unclear how many generations are between Ibrahim and Nuh. Nuh's son Sam (Shem) is considered the ancestor of the Semitic race.^[b]

• Ibrahim (Abraham)
• Azar (Terah)
• Nahur
• Sharugh
• Ra'u
• Shalikh
• 'Aabir (Eber) (Hud)
• Arfakhshadh
• Sam (Shem)
• Nuh (Noah )^[12]
• Lamik
• Mutu Shalakh
• Idris (Enoch)
• Yarid
• Mahla'il
• Qinan
• Anush
• Sheeth (Seth)
• Adam^[13][14]

Family tree linking Prophets to Shi'ite Imams

Family tree linking prophets to Imams

İbrahim İsmail Qedarites Adnān Mālik QurayshFihr Harith Muhārib Gālib Salabah Lu'ay Sûrayr Kâ'b Sayl Mûrrah Sa'd Hind Kilab ibn Murrah Fatimah bint Sa'd Qusai ibn Kilab Hubba bint Hulail Zuhrah ibn Kilab Waqida bint Amr Abd Manaf ibn Qusai ʿAbd Manāf ibn Zuhrah ʿĀtika Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf Atikah bint Murrah ʿAbd Shams ibnʿAbdManaf Hala Barra Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf Hashemites Banu Nawfal Umayya ibn Abd Shams Barra Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf Abusayfah ‘Abd al-Muttalib Asad ibn Hashim Nazle Harb Abu al-'As ibn Umayyah Aminah bint Wahb ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As Affan ibn Abi al-'As Muhammed(Family tree) Khadijah(Daughters) Ali(Family tree) Khawlah bint Ja'far ʿAbd Allâh bin `Abbâs Muawiyah I Marwan ibn al-Hakam Uthman ibn Affan Ruqayyah bint Muhammad Fatimah Zahra Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah Al-Mukhtaral-Thaqafi(Kaysān’îyyah) ʿAli ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ummayads Uthman ibn Abu-al-Aas Hasan al-mujtaba Umm Ishaq bint Talha Hussein ibn Ali(Family) Shahrbanu Abu Hāshimal-Hānafiyyah(Kaysān’īyyah) Muhammad "al-Imām" Yazid I Zayd ibn al-Hasan Hasan al-Mu'thannā Fatimah bint Hasan Ali Zaynal-‘Āb’i-Dīn Jayda al-Sindhi As-Saffah Ibrāheem "al-Imām" Muawiyah II Hasan ibn Zayd ibn Hasan ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl Farwah bint al-Qasim Muhammad al-Baqir(Imāmah) Zayd ash-Shaheed(Zaidiyyah) Abbasids Jāʿfar ibn Abī Tālīb Ali Zaynal-‘Āb’i-Dīn Ismā‘il ibn Hassan Muhammadal-Nafs al-Zakiyya Hamīdahal-Barbariyyah Khātūn Jāʿfar al-Sādiq(Imamāh‘Shi'ā) Fatima bint al-Hussain'l-Athram ibn Ḥasan b. Ali Hasan ibn Zayd’ûl-Alavī(Tabaristan) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jāʿfar ‘Umar al-Ashraf Muhammed ibn Ismā‘il Idris ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ummul Banīn Najmah Musa al-Kadhim(Athnā‘ashariyyah) Ismā‘il(Ismā‘il’īyyah) Yāhyā ibn Zayd’ûl-Alavī Ismā‘il ibn ʿAbd Allāh ‘Alī Zayyed Idrisids Sabīkah Khayzurān Ali al-Ridha Muhammed Hussein ʿAbd Allāh al-Hussayn Dā‘ī al-Kabīr Ibrāhim Sumānah M. al-Jawād Al-Wafi Yāhyā al-Hussayn ‘Alī Al-ṣāghīr Yāhyā Hadīthah/Sūsan/Savīl ‘Alī al-Hādī At-Tāqī ‘Umar Fatımā al-Nāṣīr Narjis Hasan al-Askari Ar-Rāḍī Yāhyā Kufī Alavids Muhammad Mahdi Mahdi Billāh Twelve Imams(Twelvers) Fatimids(Ismailism) Al-Aftāh(Aftāhīyyah) Al-Qā'im Muhammad Al-Mansur Al-Mu'izz Al-Aziz Al-Hakim Az-Zahir Al-Mustansir Nizār al-Muṣṭafá(Nizārīyyah) Muhammed Al-Mustā‘lī(Mustā‘līyyah) Al-Āmīr AlamutCastle(Hassasins) Al-Hāfeez(Ḥāfīzīyyah) Aṭ-Ṭāyyīb(Ṭāyyībīyyah) Al-Zāfīr Yūssuf Nizārī Imāmah Al-Fā'īz TaiyabiDā'ĩs Al-'Āḍīd Nizārī Ismāilism DawoodiDā'ĩs Ayyubids

Ancestry

Ancestors of Muhammad
16. Mughira 8. 'Amr al-ʻUlā 17. Atikah 4. Shaybah 18. Amr 9. Salma 19. Umairah 2. Abdullah 20. A'idh 10. Amri 21. Fatimah 5. Fatimah 22. Abd 11. Sakhrah 23. Takhmur 1.Muhammad 24. Zuhrah 12. Abd Manaf 25. Jumul 6. Wahb 26. Wajz 13. Hind 27. Salma 3. Aminah 28. Uthman 14. Abdul Uzza 29. Hudhaibah 7. Barrah 30. Asad 15. Umm Habib 31. Barrah

See also

• Sayyid, an honorific title denoting people accepted as descendants of Muhammad
• Abraham's family tree
• Descent from Adnan to Muhammad
• Ahl al-Bayt
• Family tree of Ali
  • Hashemites
  • Idrisid dynasty
  • Alaouite dynasty
• Umdat al-Talib

Notes

1. Wathilah ibn al-Asqa narrated that Muhammad said "Indeed Allah chose Isma'il from the progeny of Ibrahim, chose the Banu Kinanah over other tribes from the children of Isma'il; He chose the Banu Quraish over other tribes of Kinanah; He chose Banu Hashim over the other families of the Quraish; and He chose me from Banu Hashim."^[5][6]
2. 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.

References

1. Maqsood, Ruqaiyyah Waris. "The Prophet's Line Family No 3 – Qusayy, Hubbah, and Banu Nadr to Quraysh". Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Dawah. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
2. Ibn Hisham. The Life of the Prophet Muhammad. Vol. 1. p. 181.
3. Parolin, Gianluca P. (2009). Citizenship in the Arab World: Kin, Religion and Nation-State. Amsterdam University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-9089640451. "The ‘arabicised or arabicising Arabs’, on the contrary, are believed to be the descendants of Ishmael through Adnan, but in this case the genealogy does not match the Biblical line exactly. The label ‘arabicised’ is due to the belief that Ishmael spoke Hebrew until he got to Mecca, where he married a Yemeni woman and learnt Arabic. Both genealogical lines go back to Sem, son of Noah, but only Adnanites can claim Abraham as their ascendant, and the lineage of Mohammed, the Seal of Prophets (khatim al-anbiya'), can therefore be traced back to Abraham. Contemporary historiography unveiled the lack of inner coherence of this genealogical system and demonstrated that it finds insufficient matching evidence; the distinction between Qahtanites and Adnanites is even believed to be a product of the Umayyad Age, when the war of factions (al-niza al-hizbi) was raging in the young Islamic Empire."
4. Hughes, Thomas Patrick (1995) [First published 1885]. A Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Together With the Technical and Theological Terms, of the Muhammadan Religion. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. p. 19. ISBN 978-81-206-0672-2. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
5. Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Sahih Muslim
6. al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Tirmidhi
7. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. The History of al-Tabari. Vol. 6. p. 37. The genealogists do not differ concerning the descent of our Prophet Muhammad as far as Ma'add b. 'Adnan.
8. Koenig, Harold G. (2014-01-01). "Differences and Similarities". Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 97. The Quraysh was Nadhr, the 12th tribal generation down from Kedar, the son of Ishmael mentioned in the Bible.
9. Mackintosh-Smith, Tim (2019-04-30). Arabs. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18028-2.
10. Kaltner, John (2017-06-15). Ishmael Instructs Isaac: An Introduction to the Qur'an for Bible Readers. Liturgical Press. ISBN 978-0-8146-8363-7.
11. 'Uyoon Al-Ma'aarif; Al-Qudaa'i
12. Ibn Hisham, Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen, 2/14-17.
13. Firestone et al., 2001, pp. 11–12.
14. Hakim al-Nishaburi (ed.). Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain. 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abbas narrated Muhammad said: "Between Nuh and Adam were ten generations, all of them were upon Sharia of the truth, then they differed. So Allah sent prophets as bringers of good news and as warners."