Adnan

For other uses, see Adnan (disambiguation).

Adnan (Arabic: عدنان‎) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtani of Southern and south eastern Arabia who descend from Qahtan.

Origin

Adnan is the father of the Adnanite Arabs who are the northern Arab tribes that occupied Hijaz, Yamama regions as well as most parts of northern Arabia, and According to Hadith, he traces a genealogical history to Ismael:

Adnan son of Add son of Send^{[1][clarification needed]} son of Humaisi'^[2] ancestor of Ismael^[3][4].

Descent from Adnan to Muhammad

According to Islamic tradition, the Islamic prophet Muhammad was descended from Adnan. 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."^[5]

• 122 BC – Adnan (عدنان)
•   89 BC – Ma'add (معد)
•   56 BC – Nizar (نزار)
•   23 BC – Mudar (مضر)
•   10 AD – Elias (إلياس)
•   43 AD – Mudrikah (مدركة)
•   76 AD – Khuzaimah (خزيمة)
• 109 AD – Kinanah (كنانة)
• 142 AD – al-Nadr (النضر)
• 175 AD – Malik (مالك)
• 208 AD – Fihr (فهر)
• 241 AD – Ghalib (غالب)
• 274 AD – Luwaiy (لؤي)
• 307 AD – Ka'ab (كعب)
• 340 AD – Murrah (مرة)
• 373 AD – Kilab (كلاب)
• 406 AD – Qusai (قصي)
• 439 AD – Abd Manaf (عبد مناف)
• 472 AD – Hashim (هاشم)
• 505 AD – Abd al-Muttalib (عبد المطلب)
• 538 AD – Abd Allah (عبد الله)
• 570 AD – Muhammad (محمد)

See also

• Ahl al-Bayt
• Family tree of Muhammad
• Family tree of Shaiba ibn Hashim
• Ancestry of Qusai ibn Kilab
• Banu Hashim
• Banu Quraysh
• Banu Kinanah
• Banu Mudhar

References

1. ^ عن موسى بن يعقوب عن عبد الله بن وهب بن زمعة الزمعي عن عمته عن أم سلمة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال معد بن عدنان بن أدد بن زند بن يرى بن أعراق الثرى قالت أم سلمة : فزند هو الهميسع واليرى هو نبت ، وأعراق الثرى هو إسماعيل; لأنه ابن ابراهيم ، وإبراهيم لم تأكله النار كما أن النار لا تأكل الثرى^{[clarification needed]}Unusable reference
2. ^ Book of Genesis 25:12-16
3. ^ Ismael, Encyclopedia of the Qur'an
4. ^ Azraqi, Akhbar Makkah, vol. 1, pp. 58-66
5. ^ 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 9788120606722. http://books.google.com/books?id=JherW50tVyAC&pg=PA19. Retrieved 2010-07-24.