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Islamic prophet Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets ar ...

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...

and numerous branches of the

Quraish tribe The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qur ...

, spouse = Hind bint Surayr
Asma bint Adiy , children =

Kilab ibn Murrah Kilab ibn Murrah ( ar, كِلَاب ٱبْن مُرَّة) (born 373 AD) was an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Specifically, he was prophet Muhammad's great-great-great-great-grandfather. Biography Kilab was the son of Murrah ibn Ka' ...

, Taym ibn Murrah, Yaqazah ibn Murrah , parents = Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy
Wahshiya bint Shaiban , relatives = Adiy ibn Ka'b, Husays ibn Ka'b (brothers) Murrah ibn Ka'b ( ar, مُرَّة ٱبْن كَعْب) ibn Luay ibn Ghalib ibn

Fihr ibn Malik Fihr ibn Malik ( ar, فِهْر ٱبْن مَالِك, Fihr ibn Mālik, ), is counted among the direct ancestors of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In the lineage of Muhammad from Adnan, Fihr precedes Muhammad by eleven generations. Meaning of ...

was a man from

Quraysh tribe The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qu ...

, supposed to have lived in the 4th century. He was the sixth-in-line of Muhammad's grandfathers. He is the common ancestor of all four of Muhammad's grandparents. He is also the common ancestor of six of Muhammad's eight great-grandparents. He is also the common ancestor of

and his friend

Abu Bakr Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honor ...

Descendants

* Abdul Muttalib (Muhammad's paternal grandfather): :Father:Hashim ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusay ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. :Mother:Salma bint Amr An-Najjariya (not a descendant of Murrah). *

Fatimah bint Amr Fāṭima bint ʿAmr ( ar, فاطمة بنت عمرو; died 576) was the grandmother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib and one of the wives of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim. She was from the Banu Makhzum clan of the Quraysh trib ...

(Muhammad's paternal grandmother): :Father:Amr ibn Ae’z ibn Imran ibn Makhzum ibn Yaqza ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. :Mother:Sakhra bint Abd ibn Imran ibn Makhzum ibn Yaqza ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. * Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf (Muhammad's maternal grandfather): :Father:Abd Manaf ibn Zuhra ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. :Mother:Atika bint a-Awqas As-Sulamiya (not a descendant of Murrah). * Barrah bint Abdul Uzza (Muhammad's maternal grandmother): :Father:Abdul Uzza ibn Othman ibn Abd Addar ibn Qusay ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. :Mother:Um Habib bint Assad ibn Abdul Uzza ibn Qusay ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b. His mother was Wahshiya bint Shaiban ibn Muharib ibn

, so his mother was a second cousin of his father.

References

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Ibn Hisham Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Muʿāfirī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو محمد عبدالملك بن هشام ابن أيوب الحميري المعافري البصري; died 7 May 833), or Ibn Hisham, e ...

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