Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib () was an ancestor of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
. He is the son of
Ghalib ibn Fihr who lived in
Yathrib.
History
The tradition states that Muhammad was the son of
'Abdullah, b.
'Abdu'I-Muttalib (whose name was Shayba), b.
Hashim
Hashim () is a common male Arabic given name.
Notable people with the name include:
*Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
* Hashim Amir Ali
* Hashim Shah
* Hashim Amla
* Hashim Thaçi
* Hashim Khan
* Hashim Qureshi
* Mir Hashim Ali Khan
*Hashim al-Atassi
* Hashi ...
(whose name was 'Amr), b.
Abd Manaf (whose name was al-Mughira), b.
Qusay (whose name was Zayd), b.
Kilab, b.
Murrah, b.
Ka'b, b. ''Lu'ayy'', b.
Ghalib, b.
Fihr, b. Malik, b.
al-Nadr
In Islamic tradition, Al-Nadr () was the ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He precedes Muhammad by 13 generations.
Ancestry
The tradition (the version of Ibn Ishaq) holds that "Muhammad was the son of 'Abdullah, b. 'Abdu'I-Muttalib (who ...
, b.
Kinana, b. Khuzayma, b.
Mudrika (whose name was 'Amir), b.
Ilyas, b.
Mudar
The Mudar () was a principal grouping of the northern Arab tribes.
History
The Mudar and Rabi'a are recorded in central Arabia in the Arabic histories of the pre-Islamic period; the kings of the Kindah bore the title of "king of the Ma'add ( ...
, b.
Nizar, b.
Ma'ad
Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān (Arabic: مَعَدّ ٱبْن عَدْنَان) was a mythic Arab ancestor, traditionally regarded as the son of Adnan and the forefather of several northern Arab tribes, including Mudar and Rabi'ah. He is considered a key ...
, b.
Adnan
Adnan () is traditionally regarded as the patriarch of the Adnanite Arabs, a major Arab lineage that historically inhabited Northern, Western, Eastern, and Central Arabia. The Adnanites are distinct from the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia ...
, b. Udd (or Udad), b. Ya'rub, b. Yashjub, b. Noordeen Ali
Qedar, b.
Isma'il, b.
Ibrahim, the friend of the Compassionate.
Ibn Ishaq's account
In
Ibn Ishaq
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (; – , known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic proph ...
's ''Biography of the Prophet Muhammad'' (as translated by
Alfred Guillaume
Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Islam.
Career
Guillaume was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, the son of Alfred Guillaume. He took up Arabi ...
) he reports these stories:
"A soothsayer Shafi' b. Kulayb al-Sadafi had come to Yemen King Tubba'
This is a list of rulers of Saba' and Himyar, ancient Arab kingdoms which are now part of present-day Yemen. The kingdom of Saba' became part of the Himyarite Kingdom in the late 3rd century CE.
The title Mukarrib (Old South Arabian: , romanize ...
and lived with him, and when he wished to bid him farewell Tubba' asked
him whether he had anything of importance to communicate, and in the
customary rhymes of saj' (light poems) he told him in reply to the question whether any king would fight with Tubba', "No, but the king of Ghassan had a son whose kingdom would be surpassed by a man of great piety, helped by the Almighty, described in the Psalms (of the Israelites); his people would be favoured by revelation, he would dispel darkness by light, Ahmad the prophet. How blessed his people when he comes, one of the descendants of Lu'ayy from Banu Qusayy. Tubba' sent for a copy of the psalms, examined them, and found the description of the prophet."
Lu'ay's grandson Qusay who conquered Mecca for Quraish said a poem taking pride in his grandfather Lu'ay:
:
I am the son of the protectors from Lu'ayy
in Mecca is my house where I grew.
:
mine is the valley as Ma'add knows
:
It is Marwa I delight in
:
I did not have to battle, had not, the sons of Qedar and Nabit settled here,
:
Rizh is my helper I fear no injustice as long as I live".
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3rd-century Arab people
Ancestors of Muhammad