Kilab ibn Murrah () (born CE) was an ancestor of the

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. Specifically, he was his great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Biography

Kilab was the son of

Murrah ibn Ka'b Murrah ibn Ka'b () ibn Luay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik was a man from Quraysh tribe, 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 grandpare ...

ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik by his first wife Hind bint Surayr ibn Tha'labah ibn Harith ibn Fihr ibn Malik. Both his parents traced their lineage back to Fihr, the progenitor of the

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, and further to Ismail (

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), son of Ibrahim (

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). He had two half-brothers, Taym ibn Murrah and Yaqazah ibn Murrah, through his father's second wife, Asma bint Adiy (Hind bint Harithah al-Bariqiyyah) of Asad. He was married to Fatimah bint Sa'd ibn Sayl, who bore him two sons. His elder son, Zuhrah ibn Kilab, was the progenitor of the

Banu Zuhrah Banu Zuhrah () is a clan of the Quraysh tribe. Akhnas ibn Shariq al- Thaqifi and the Banu Zuhrah were with the Meccan as part of the escort that preceded the battle of Badr, but since he believed the caravan to be safe, he did not join Quraish ...

clan, and his younger son,

Qusai ibn Kilab Qusai ibn Kilab ibn Murrah (, ''Qusayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah''; ca. 400–480), also spelled Qusayy, Kusayy, Kusai, or Cossai, born Zayd (), was an Ishmaelite descendant of Abraham. Orphaned early on, he would rise to become chief of Mecca, an ...

, became the first

custodian of the

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. After his death, his wife married Rabi'ah ibn Haram from the Banu Udhrah tribe.

Family tree

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

References

370s births Year of death unknown 4th-century Arab people Ancestors of Muhammad Sahabah ancestors Quraysh {{Islam-bio-stub

Biography

Family tree

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