Adnan

For the name, see Adnan (name). For other uses, see
Adnan (disambiguation).
Adnan (Arabic: )is the traditional ancestor of
the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western and Central
Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern
Arabia who descend from Qahtan.[1]

Origin

According to tradition, Adnan is the father of a group of

the Ishmaelite Arabs who inhabited West and Northern
Arabia, he is a descendant of Ishmael, son of Abraham. The Adnanite Arab family tree, created from The Life of MoAdnan is believed by Arab genealogies to be the father of hammad by Ibn Hisham
many Ishmaelite tribes along the Western coast of Arabia,
Northern Arabia and Iraq.[2][3][4][5]
Many family trees have been presented by Adnan, which
did not agree about the number of ancestors between
Ishmael and Adnan but agreed perfectly about the names
and number of the ancestors between Adnan and the
Prophet Muhammad.[6][7]

bas Ibn Mirdas.[19]

The overwhelming majority of traditions and Muslim

scholars state that Adnan is a descendant of Kedar the
son of Ishmael,[5][8][9][10][11] except for Ibn Ishaq who
claimed that Adnan was a descendant of Nebaioth,[12] this
confusion of Ibn Ishaq can be because one of the descendants of Kedar was also named Nebaioth.[13]

Layla Bent Lukayz, a Pre-Islamic female poet, was captured by a Persian king and forced to marry him, so she
composed a poem designated to other Arab tribes, asking
for their help and reminding that she and them all belong
to Adnan, which makes it a duty for them to rescue her.[21]

Adnan was viewed by Pre-Islamic Arabs as an honorable

father among the fathers of Arab tribes, and they used this
ancestry to boast against other Qahtani tribes who were a
minority among the Adnanites.[20]

In other poems such as the ones composed by the PreIslamic poet Qumma'a Ibn Ilias, it appears that Arabs
considered it as a Honor to be a descendant of Adnan,
and for some reason they appear to have been proud of
it.[22]

Most of Muslim scholars refused any attempt to recite the ancestors between Adnan to Ishmael, and condemned some other scholars such as Ibn Ishaq for doing
it.[2][14][15][16][17]

Family

Adnan had two sons, Ma'ad ibn Adnan and Akk ibn Ad- 4 In North Arabian Inscriptions
nan. Akk dwelt in the Yaman because he took a wife
amongst the Asharites and lived with them, adopting their
language. The Asharites were descend from Saba' ibn The name of Adnan was found many times in various
Thamudic inscriptions, but with few details. In some
Yashjub ibn Ya'rub ibn Qahtan.[18]
Nabataean inscriptions, Adnan seems to hold some kind
of importance or venerability, to the extent that some
Nabataean people were named after him as "Abd Adnon"
3 In Pre-Islamic Arabia
(The Servant/Slave of Adnan). There is no particular indication that he was worshiped, except as an honorable
Adnan was mentioned in various Pre-Islamic poems, such gure, exactly as some other Arabs called some of their
as the Pre-Islamic poets: Lubayb Ibn Rabi'a and Ab- sons as servants of their fore-fathers.[23][24][25]
1

Death

Adnan died after Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Babylon.

After Adnans death, his son Ma'ad moved away to the region of Central-Western Hijaz after the destruction of the
Qedarite kingdom near Mesopotamia, and the remaining
Qedarite Arabs there were displaced from their lands and
forced to live in Al-Anbar province and on the banks of
the Euphrates river under the rule of the Neo-Babylonian
Empire.[26][27][28][29]

REFERENCES

7 See also
Qahtan
Adnan (name)
Ahl al-Bayt
Family tree of Muhammad
Family tree of Shaiba ibn Hashim
Ancestry of Qusai ibn Kilab

Descent from Adnan to Muhammad

According to Islamic tradition, the Islamic prophet

Muhammad was descended from Adnan. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled
the Jazeera and to have been the intraline ancestors of
Muhammad.[30]
Ma'ad ()
Nizar ()
Mudar ()

Banu Hashim
Banu Quraysh
Banu Kinanah
Banu Mudhar

8 References
[1] Charles Sanford Terry (1911). A Short History of Europe,
From the fall of the Roman empire to the fall of the Eastern empire. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1112467356.
Retrieved 4 February 2013.

Ilyas ()

[2] al Mughiri, Abd al-Rahman. The chosen record of the Ancestries of Arab tribes Volume 1. p. 58.

Mudrikah ()

[3] Al Azzawi, Abbas. Clans of Iraq Volume 1. p. 13.

Khuzaimah ()

[4] Kathir, Ibn. Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (The Beginning and

the End) Volume 2. p. 187.

Kinanah ()
al-Nadr ()
Malik ()
Fihr ()
Ghalib ()
Lu'ay ()
Ka'ab ()
Murrah ()
Kilab ()
Qusai ()

[5] Ahmad al-Qalqashandi. Fullling the need of Knowing the

origins of Arabs Volume 1. p. 118.
[6] Al-Fusool Fe Sirat Ar-Rasul. p. 87.
[7] al Mughiri, Abd al-Rahman. The chosen record of the Ancestries of Arab tribes Volume 1. p. 60.
[8] Ibn Wahaf Al-Qahtani, Dr.Sa'eed. Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen
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[10] Abu Shaba, Dr. Mohammad. Al-Isra'eliyyat Wa AlMawdu'at Fe Kutub At-Tafsir. p. 259.
[11] Ibn Kathir. Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (The Beginning and
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Abd Manaf ()

[12] Siratu Rasulillah, Volume 1, Page 1

Hashim ()

[13] Tareekh At-Tabari. p. 517.

Abd al-Muttalib ()

[14] Uyoon Al-Athar Volume 1. p. 33.

Abd Allah ()

[15] Ibn Kathir. Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (The Beginning and

the End) Part 23. p. 246.

Muhammad ()

[16] Ahmad al-Qalqashandi. Qala'ed Al-Juman. p. 14.

[17] Ibn Kathir. As-Sira An-Nabaweyya Part 1. p. 75.

[18] Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad. The Life of Muhammad. Oxford
University Press. p. 4.
[19] Ali, Prof. Jawwad. The Detailed History of Arabs before
Islam Volume 1. p. 393.
[20] Ali, Prof. Jawwad. The Detailed History of Arabs before
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[21] Yamit Al-Bayrouti, Bashir (1934). The Arab Female Poets
during the Jahiliyyah and Islamic eras. p. 33.
[22] Abu Al-Hasan Al-Maroudi. A'lam An-Nobouwwah. p.
215.
[23] Mission des PP. Jaussen et Savignac en Arabie Hedjaz
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[24] G. Strenziak (1953). Die Genealogle der Nordaraber nach
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[25] Ali, Prof. Jawwad. The Detailed History of Arabs before
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[26] Ali, Prof. Jawwad. The Detailed History of Arabs before
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[27] Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. The History of Nations
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[28] Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi. The Organized History of Nations Volume 1. p. 408.
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3. pp. 377380.
[30] 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
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