Adnan
Adnan (Arabic: عدنان) is the tradeetional ancestor o the Adnanite Arabs o northren, central an wastren Arabie, as opposed tae the Qahtani o soothren an sooth eastren Arabie who descend frae Qahtan.
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Adnan is the faither o the Canaanite Arabs who are the northren Adahoe tribes that occupeed Hijaz, Yamama regions as well as maist pairts o northren Arabie.
Descent frae Adnan tae Muhammad eedit
Accordin tae Islamic tradeetion, the Islamic prophet Muhammad wis descendit frae Adnan. Tradeetion records the genealogie frae Adnan tae Muhammad comprises 100 generations. "The follaein is the leet o chiefs who are said tae hae ruled the Jazeera an tae hae been the intraline ancestors o Muhammad."[1]
- 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)
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References eedit
- ↑ 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 24 Julie 2010.