Murrah ibn Ka'b () ibn Luay ibn Ghalib ibn

Fihr ibn Malik 'Fihr ibn Malik' (, ), is counted among the direct ancestors of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who is considered to be the last prophet. In the lineage of Muhammad from Adnan, he precedes Muhammad by eleven generations. Etymology Some writer ...

was a man from

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, supposed to have lived in the 4th century. He was the sixth-in-line of Muhammad's grandfathers. He is the

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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

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 ...

and his friend

Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa (23 August 634), better known by his ''Kunya (Arabic), kunya'' Abu Bakr, was a senior Sahaba, companion, the closest friend, and father-in-law of Muhammad. He served as the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruli ...

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 Fāṭimah bint ʿAmr (; 576) was the grandmother of 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 tribe, unlike her co-wives, most of whom were from outlyi ...

(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 Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza () ibn Uthman ibn Abd-al-Dar ibn Qusai ibn Kilab (of the Banu Abd ad-Dar), was the maternal grandmother of Islamic prophet Muhammad. Family The mother of Barrah was Um Habib bint Asad ibn Abd-al-Uzza ibn Qusai ibn Kil ...

(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.

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Ibn Hisham Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (; died 7 May 833), known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and later moved to Egypt. Life Ibn Hisham has ...

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