Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib () was an ancestor of Islamic prophet
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 ...
of Arabia. He is the son of
Ghalib ibn Fihr
Ghalib ibn Fihr ( ar, غَالِب ٱبْن فِهْر, Ghalib ibn Fihr, ), is counted among the direct ancestors of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In the lineage of Muhammad from Adnan, Fihr precedes Muhammad by ten generations.
He is the so ...
who lived in
Makkah
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow v ...
.
History
The tradition states that Muhammad was the son of
'Abdullah, b.
'Abdu'I-Muttalib (whose name was Shayba), b.
Hashim
Hashim ( ar, هاشم) is a common male Arabic given name.
Hashim may also refer to:
*Hashim Amir Ali
*Hashim (poet)
*Hashim Amla
*Hashim Thaçi
*Hashim Khan
* Hashim Qureshi
* Mir Hashim Ali Khan
*Hashim al-Atassi
*Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
*Hashim ib ...
(whose name was 'Amr), b.
Abd Manaf (whose name was al-Mughira), b.
Qusay Qusay (also transliterated as Qusai, ar, قصي, ) is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
People
* Qusai Abu Alieh, Jordanian footballer
* Qusai Abtini, Syrian child actor
* Ahmed Kousay Altaie, Iraqi American United States Army soldier, capt ...
(whose name was Zayd), b.
Kilab, b.
Murrah, b.
Ka'b, b. ''Lu'ayy'', b.
Ghalib
Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan (Urdu, fa, مرزا بیگ اسد اللہ خان; 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869) also known as Mirza Ghalib (Urdu, fa}) was an Urdu and Persian language, Persian shayar (poet), poet of the 19th century Mughal Em ...
, b.
Fihr
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 ...
, b. Malik, b.
al-Nadr
In Islamic tradition, an-Nadhr () 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
Mudrikah ibn Ilyas ( ar, مُدْرِكَة ٱبْن إِلْيَاس), was an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
History
"Muhammad was the son of 'Abdullah, b. 'Abdu'I-Muttalib (whose name was Shayba), b. Hashim (whose name was 'Amr), ...
(whose name was 'Amir), b.
Ilyas
Ilyas ( ar, إلياس) is a form of the masculine given name Elias or Elijah.
Notable people with this given name
* Ilyas son of Mudar, ancestor of Muhammad
* Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Founder of Dawat-e-Islami
* Ilyas Babar (1926-2002), Indian at ...
, b.
Mudar
The Mudar ( ar, مُضَر) are one of the most powerful northern Arab tribal groupings.
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 ...
, b.
Nizar, b.
Ma'ad
Ma'ad ibn Adnan ( ar, مَعَدّ ٱبْن عَدْنَان, Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān) is an ancient ancestor of Qusai ibn Kilab and his descendant the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is featured in ancient Arabic literature.
Origin
According to tra ...
, b.
Adnan
Adnan ( ar, عدنان, 'adnān) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western, Eastern and Central Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia who descend from Qahtan. His ancestry can be traced back t ...
, b. Udd (or Udad),....b. Ya'rub, b. Yashjub, b.
Qedar
The Qedarites ( ar, قيدار, Qaydār) were a largely nomadic ancient Arab tribal confederation centred in the Wādī Sirḥān in the Syrian Desert. Attested from the 8th century BC, the Qedarites formed a powerful polity which expanded its ...
, b.
Isma'il
Ismail ( ar, إِسْمَاعِيْل, ʾIsmāʿīl) is regarded as a prophet and messenger and the ancestor to the Ishmaelites in Islam. He is the son of Ibrahim (Abraham), born to Hajar (Hagar). Ismail is also associated with Mecca and th ...
, b.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim ( ar, إبراهيم, links=no ') is the Arabic name for Abraham, a Biblical patriarch and prophet in Islam.
For the Islamic view of Ibrahim, see Abraham in Islam.
Ibrahim may also refer to:
* Ibrahim (name), a name (and list of people ...
, the friend of the Compassionate.
Ibn Ishaq's account
In
Ibn Ishaq
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār (; according to some sources, ibn Khabbār, or Kūmān, or Kūtān, ar, محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار بن خيار, or simply ibn Isḥaq, , meaning "the son of Isaac"; died 767) was an 8 ...
'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 Arabic a ...
) 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.
Mukarrib (Mukrab, Karab), a religious title that means "near to God", was used by rulers of Saba' until Karib'il Watar changed his title to ''Malik'' at the time of the kingdom of Saba' and Dhu Rayda ...
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 Qusay (also transliterated as Qusai, ar, قصي, ) is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
People
* Qusai Abu Alieh, Jordanian footballer
* Qusai Abtini, Syrian child actor
* Ahmed Kousay Altaie, Iraqi American United States Army soldier, capt ...
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
The Qedarites ( ar, قيدار, Qaydār) were a largely nomadic ancient Arab tribal confederation centred in the Wādī Sirḥān in the Syrian Desert. Attested from the 8th century BC, the Qedarites formed a powerful polity which expanded its ...
and Nabit
Nabit (Nabt), or Nabdem (also ''Nabde, Nabte, Nabdam, Nabdug, Nabrug, Nabnam, Namnam''), is a Gur language of Burkina Faso and Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts t ...
settled here,
:
Rizh is my helper I fear no injustice as long as I live".
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