Fatimah bint Saʿd al-Āmri al-Zahrani (), was the paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother and maternal great-great-great-grandmother of

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. Her full name is: Fatimah bint Saʿd bin Sail bin Khair bin Hamālah bin Oaf bin Ghanam bin Āmir (banu Āmir) bin Amro bin Ghaʿthamah bin Ghaʿthamah bin Yashkor bin Mobsher bin Saʿb bin Dahman bin Nasr bin ʿZahrān bin Kaʿab bin al-Harith bin Kaʿab bin ʿAbd Allāh Mālik bin Nasr bin

Azd The Azd (Arabic: أَزْد), or Al-Azd (Arabic: ٱلْأَزْد), is an ancient Tribes of Arabia, Arabian tribe. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia. Land of Azd Pre-Islamic Arabia Pre- ...

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Fatima bint Sa’d was daughter of Sa’d of Banu Āmir of Zahran (An ancient off-shoot of

) in

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, specifically in

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. She married

Kilab ibn Murrah Kilab ibn Murrah () (born CE) was an ancestor of the Prophets of Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. Specifically, he was his great-great-great-great-grandfather. Biography Kilab was the son of Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn M ...

and bore him two sons. Her elder son,

Zuhrah ibn Kilab Zuhrah ibn Kilab ibn Murrah () was the great-grandfather of Aminah bint Wahb, and was thus the great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also the progenitor of the Banu Zuhrah clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. Biography ...

, was the progenitor of the

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clan, and her younger son,

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, became the first

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of the

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. After Kilab ibn Murrah's death she married Rabi‘ah ibn Haram from the Bani Azra tribe, who took her with him to as-Sham, where she gave birth to a son called Darraj. As no biographical details besides her name are known, she is considered as legendary figure by most historians.

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

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