Detailed family tree of Muḥammad ﷺ

The full lineage of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ is often divided into four categories:

1. From the Prophet ﷺ to ʿAdnān
2. From ʿAdnān to Ibrāhīm ﵇
3. From Ibrāhīm ﵇ to Nūḥ ﵇
4. From Nūḥ ﵇ to Ādam ﵇

From the Prophet ﷺ to ʿAdnān

Most historical sources agree on the following lineal tree for the Prophet ﷺ: (Note: The following list ascends in chronological order)

1. Muḥammad
2. ʿAbd-Allah
3. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
4. Hāshim
5. ʿAbd Manāf
6. Quṣayy
7. Kilāb
8. Murrah
9. Kaʿb
10. Luʾayy
11. Ghālib
12. Fihr
13. Mālik
14. al-Naḍr
15. Kinānah
16. Khuzaymah
17. Mudrikah
18. Ilyās
19. Muḍar
20. Nizār
21. Maʿadd
22. ʿAdnān

The above list remains relatively consistent throughout all the known works of Sīrah, including retained excerpts from Ibn Isḥāq.

According to scholars of Sīrah and history, such as Bayhaqī, Ṭabarī, and Ibn Ḥazm, the above lineal record from Muḥammad ﷺ to ʿAdnān is historically reliable. The historicity of any further lineage is questionable at best.

The following tree is an adapted excerpt from Jamharat al-Nasab, by Abū al-Mundhir Hishām b. Muḥammad b. al-Sāʾib al-Kalbī (d. 240 AH).

*Note: Superscripts in this excerpt are not footnotes. Instead, they represent the current link in the family tree, for the reader to easily follow along.*

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Udad¹ b. Zayd was the father of ʿAdnān, Nabt, and, lastly, ʿAmr, who passed away without any progeny.

Nabt² fathered: Shaqrah and Shaqḥabā.

ʿAdnān² fathered: Maʿadd, al-Dīth, Ubayyā, al-ʿAyy, and ʿUdaynā, the latter three of whom passed away without progeny. Their mother (ʿAdnāns’s wife) was Mahdad, the daughter of Alliham b. Jalḥab b. Jadīs.

al-Dīth³ b. ʿAdnān fathered al-Ḥārith, also known as ʿAkk.

ʿAkk⁴ b. al-Dīth fathered: al-Shāhid, Suḥār (also known as Ghālib) Subayʿā, who passed away without progeny, and Qarn.

al-Shāhid⁵ b. ʿAkk fathered: Ghāfiq and Sāʿidah.

Ghāfiq⁶ b. al-Shāhid fathered: Liʿsān, Mālik, and al-Qiyātah.

Mālik⁷ b. Ghāfiq fathered: Rihnah and Suḥār.

Rihnah⁸ fathered: Kaʿb, Ṭarīf, and Mālik.

Ṣuḥār⁸ b. Mālik fathered: ʿAbd, Muʿāwiyah, and Rabīʿah.

Liʿsān⁷ b. Ghāfiq fathered: al-Ḥūthah, Aslam, Wāʾil, Zabbān, and Khaḍrān.

al-Qiyātah⁷ b. Ghāfiq fathered: Aḥdab, Awfā, Aslam, and Khidrān.

Ṣuḥār⁵ (Ghālib) b. ʿAkk fathered: ʿAns and Bawlān.

• One of the sons of Bawlān was Muqātil b. Ḥakīm b.ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khurāsānī.

Maʿadd³ b. ʿAdnān fathered: Nizār, Qanaṣ, Qunāṣah. Sanām, ʿUrf, who passed away without progeny, Quḍāʿah, ʿAwf, Shakk and Dījān, both of whom passed away without progeny, Ḥaydah, and ʿUbayd al-Rimāḥ.

Sanām⁴ b. Maʿadd fathered: Jusham and Jaʾ, two allies of Ḥakam b. Saʿd from the Tribe of Madhḥij.

Ḥaydah⁴ b. Maʿd fathered: Majīd - the progenitor of a clan that inculcated within the Ashʿariyyīn and so became attributed to them - Aflaḥ, and Quzaḥ, both of whom passed away without progeny.

al-Qaḥm⁴ b. Maʿadd fathered Afyān, who fathered: Ghanthā, Raw, and Ghatan, from a tribe in Banī Mālik b. Kinānah b. Khuzaymah.

Nizār⁴ b. Maʿadd fathered: Muḍar and Iyād - both of whose mother is Sawdah b. ʿAkk b. al-Dīth b. ʿAdnān - Rabīʿah and Anmār - both of whose mother was al-Jadālah b. Wiʿlān b. Jawsham b. Jalhah b. ʿAmr b. Hulayniyah b. Dawwah.

Muḍar⁵ b. Nizār fathered: Ilyās b. Muḍar and al-Nās (also known as ʿAylān). Their mother was al-Rabāb, daughter of Ḥaydah b. Maʿadd b. ʿAdnān.

Ilyās⁶ b. Muḍar fathered: ʿAmir, also known as Mudrikah, ʿĀmir, also known as Ṭābikhah, and ʿUmayr, also known as Qamaʿah - their mother was “Khindaf,” or Laylā, daughter of Ḥulwān b. ʿImrān b. Ilḥāf b. Quḍāʿah.

• Once, Laylā, their mother, was walking when Ilyās asked her, “Where are you walking to (تُخَنْدِفِين; tukhandifīn)?” As a result, she was named “Khindaf.” (The infinitive “al-khandafah” means: to walk with a strong gait.)

Mudrikah⁷ b. Ilyās fathered: Khuzaymah and Hudhayl - their mother was Salmā, daughter of Aslam b. Ilḥāf b. Quḍāʿah - Ghālib, and Saʿd and Qays, both of whom passed away without any progeny and whose mother was Laylā, daughter of al-Sayyid b. Ilḥāf b. Quḍāʿah.

Khuzaymah⁸ b. Mudrikah fathered: Kinānah - whose mother was ʿAwānah, daughter of Saʿd b. Qays or, according to some, Hind, daughter of ʿAmr b. Qays b. ʿAylān - Asad, Asadah - the Clan of Judhām is lineally attributed to Asadah - and ʿAbdullāh and al-Hūn - both of whose mother was Barrah, daughter of Murr and the sister of Tamīm b. Murr.

Kinānah⁹ b. Khuzaymah fathered: al-Naḍr, also known as Qays, Nuḍayr, Mālik, Milkān, ʿĀmir, ʿAmr, al-Ḥārith, ʿArwān, Saʿd, ʿAwf, Ghanm, Makhramah, Jarwal, and Banī Kinānah. Their mother was Barrah, the daughter of Murr and the sister of Tamīm b. Murr - the same wife of Khuzaymah. He also fathered ʿAbd Manāh; his mother was al-Dhafrāʾ, also known as Fakhah, the daughter of Haniyy b. Baliyy b. ʿAmr b. Ilḥāf b. Quḍāʾah and his uterine brother was ʿAlī b. Masʿūd al-Ghassānī; ʿAlī b. Masʿūd b. Māzin b. Dhiʾb nurtured and raised the children of ʿAbd Manāh, so they were lineally and tribally attributed to him.

al-Naḍr¹⁰ b. Kinānah fathered: Mālik and Yakhlud - these sons were part of the Clan of ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith b. Mālik b. Kinānah - al-Ṣalt, who passed away without progeny, and Khuzāʿah, who is often attributed to al-Ṣalt. Their mother was ʿIkrishah, daughter of ʿAdwān/al-Ḥārith b.ʿAmr b. Qays (ʿAylān).

Mālik¹¹ b. al-Naḍr fathered: Fihr, the progenitor of the Quraysh, and al-Ḥārith, who passed away without progeny. Their mother was Jandalah, daughter of ʿĀmir b. al-Ḥārith b. Muḍāḍ al-Jurhumī.

Fihr,¹² also known as Quraysh, fathered: Ghālib, Asad, ʿAwf, Dhiʾb, and Jawn, the latter of whom passed away without progeny. He also fathered: al-Ḥārith, the progenitor of Banū al-Hārith, and Muḥārib, the progenitor of Banū Muḥārib; these sons were from the Quraysh of the Outskirts. Their mother was Laylā, daughter of al-Ḥārith b. Tamīm b. Saʿd b. Hudhayl b. Mudrikah.

Asad¹³ b. Fihr fathered Mālik. Mālik¹⁴ b. Asad fathered: Jamal, who was also called “ʿAbd Shams,” which would later become an Arab-Christian tribe based in al-Ḥīrah. Some have stated the lineage as “ʿAbd Shams b. Jamal,” which is false. (Because they are the same person, not father and son.)

ʿAwf¹³ b. Fihr fathered: Zuhrah b. ʿAwf and Ṣafiyyah.

• According to some, all the children of Fihr passed away without posterity except Ghālib, al-Ḥārith, and Muḥārib.

Ghālib¹³ b. Fihr fathered: Luʾayy and Taym, also known as “al-Ardam,” the progenitor of a sub-tribe. Taym was an oracle and an almost beardless man, and both were from the Quraysh of the Outskirts. Ghālib also fathered Qays, who passed away without any lasting progeny.

• The last remaining person from the tribe of Qays b. Ghālib was an isolated man who passed away in ʿIrāq, under the governance of Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh [al-Qasrī] and the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik (the Umayyad caliph). After his death, no one knew who would receive his inheritance.
• The mother of Ghālib’s sons (Ghālib’s wife) was ʿĀtikah, daughter of Yakhlud b. al-Naḍr and one of the “ʿAwātik” of the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم).
  • Others say that their mother was Salmā, daughter of ʿAmr b. Rabīʿah b. Ḥārithah of Khuzāʿah.

Luʾayy¹⁴ b. Ghālib fathered:

• Kaʿb, ʿĀmir, and Sāmah, all progenitors of sub-tribes. Their mother (one of Luʾayy’s wives) was Māwiyyah, daughter of Kaʿb b. al-Qayn b. Jasr b. Shayʿ-Allāh b. Asad b. Wabarah.
• ʿAwf b. Luʿayy, the progenitor of a sub-tribe. His mother (another of Luʾayy’s wives) was al-Bāridah, daughter of ʿAwf b. Tamīm b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. ʿAffān b. ʿAwf b. Ghanm b. ʿAbd-Allāh.
  • al-Bāridah’s father (ʿAwf ) had no other children besides her.
• Khuzaymah b. Luʾayy, the progenitor of a sub-tribe known as “ʿĀʾidhat Quraysh.”
• Saʿd b. Luʾayy, the progenitor of the sub-tribe, “The Sons of Jusham."

Later in his life, ʿAwf b. Luʾayy would join with the tribe of Ghaṭafān.

Kaʿb¹⁵ b. Luʾayy fathered:

• Murrah and Huṣayṣā. Their mother was Makhshiyyah, daughter of Shaybān b. Muḥārib b. Fihr.
• ʿAdiyy b. Kaʿb, the progenitor of a sub-tribe. His mother was Raqāsh, daughter of Rukbah b. Balbalah b. Kaʿb b. Ḥarb b. Taym b. Saʿd b. Fahm b. ʿAmr b. Qays b. ʿAylān

Murrah¹⁶ b. Kaʿb fathered:

• Kilāb. His mother was Hind, daughter of Surayr b. Thaʿlabah b. al-Ḥārith b. Mālik b. Kinānah.
• Taym b. Murrah - the progenitor of a sub-tribe - and Yaqaẓah. Their mother was Asmāʾ b. Saʿd b. ʿAdiyy b. Ḥārithah b. Bāriq - Bāriq was originally a tribesman from al-Azd.

Kilāb¹⁷ b. Murrah fathered:

• Quṣayy, whose original name was Zayd. His sobriquet was “The Ensembler.” (“Mujammiʿ”)
• Zuhrah and Nuʿm. Their mother was Fāṭimah, daughter of Saʿd b. Sayl, also known as Khayr b. Ḥamālah b.  b. ʿAwf - ʿAwf was originally a tribesman from al-Azd.
  • Fāṭimah’s mother was Ṭarīfah, daughter of Qays b. Dhī al-Raʾsayn, a man from the Clan of Fahm b. ʿAmr.

The tribe of Quraysh used to be called “Banū al-Naḍr” (after al-Naḍr b. Kinānah), but when Quṣayy assembled all its sub-tribes into one massive coalition, he was called “The Ensembler.”

Quṣayy¹⁸ b. Kilāb fathered:

• ʿAbd Manāf - also known as al-Mughīrah
• ʿAbd-Allāh - also known as ʿAbd al-Dār
• ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, ʿAbd, Barrah, Imraʾah, and Takhmar.
  • The mother of all seven was Ḥubayy, daughter of Ḥulayl b. Ḥabashiyyah b. Salūl b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr - ʿAmr was originally a tribesman from the Clan of Khuzāʿah.

ʾAbd Manāf¹⁹ b. Quṣayy fathered

• Hāshim, whose original name was ʿAmr.
  • ʿAmr was nicknamed “Hāshim” because he used to crumble (هَشَمَ (hashama): to crumble) the food contents of tharīd.
• Muṭṭalib
• ʿAbd al-Shams
• Tumāḍir
• Qilābah
  • The mother of these five was ʿĀtikah, daughter of Murrah b. Hilāl b. Fālij b. Dhakwān b. Thaʿlabah b. al-Ḥārith b. Buhthah b. Sulaym b. Manṣūr b. ʿIkrimah b. Khaṣafah b. Qays b. ʿAylān b. Muḍar.
    • This is the first of the ʿAwātik of the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم).
    • Her mother was Māwiyah, daughter of Ḥawzah b. ʿAmr b. Murrah b. Saʿṣaʿah.
• Nawfal b. ʿAbd Manāf
• Abū ʿAmr b. ʿAbd Manāf - whose real name was ʿUbayd - who passed away without any progeny.
• Umaymah
  • The mother of these three was Wāqidah, daughter of Abū ʿAdiyy b. ʿAbd Nuhm of Banū Māzin b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah
• Rayṭah, daughter of ʿAbd Manāf
  • Rayṭah was born in the Clan of Hilāl b. Muʿīṭ - Muʿīt was a tribesman from the Clan of Kinānah. Rayṭah’s mother was from the tribe of Thaqīf.

Hāshim²⁰ b. ʿAbd Manāf fathered:

• ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, whose original name was Shaybat al-Ḥamd. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was the chief of the entire clan of Quraysh until he passed away.
  • His mother was Salmā, daughter of ʿAmr b. Zayd b. Labīd b. Khidāsh b. ʿĀmir b. Ghanm b. ʿAdiyy b. al-Najjār - al-Najjār’s original name was Taym-Allāh b. Thaʿlabah b. ʿAmr b. al-Khazraj.
  • His uterine brothers were ʿAmr and Maʿbad; their father was Uḥayḥāh b. al-Julāḥ.

Hishām reports: Abū Miskīn narrated to me: When ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s uncle (Muṭṭalib) came and took him from Madīnah to Makkah, his mother versified:

Line One and Two:

Line Three and Four:

Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf also fathered:

• Naḍlah b. Hāshim and al-Shifāʾ. Their mother was [Umaymah,] the daughter of ʿAdiyy b. ʿAbd-Allāh from Quḍaʿah, who was from the Clan of Salāmān.
  • Their uterine brothers were:
    1. Nufayl b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Riyāḥ b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Qurṭ b. Razāḥ b. ʿAdiyy b. Kaʿb
    2. ʿAmr b. Rabīʿah b. Ḥabīb b. Jadhīmah b. Mālik b. Ḥisl b. ʿĀmir b. Luʾayy
• Asad b. Hāshim. His mother was Qaylah, also known as al-Ḥarūr, daughter of ʿĀmir b. Mālik b. Jadhīmah (Jadhīmah’s forename was al-Muṣtaliq, and he was from the Clan of Khuzāʿah).
• Abū Ṣayfiyy b. Hāshim - his real name was ʿAmr - and Ṣayfiyy. Their mother was Hind, daughter of ʿAmr b. Thaʿlabah - Thaʿlabah was from the Clan of ʿAwf b. al-Khazraj.
  • Their (Abū Ṣayfiyy and Ṣayfiyy) uterine brother was: Makhramah b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy.

ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib²¹ b. Hāshim fathered:

• ʿAbd-Allāh
• ʿAbd Manāf, whose original name was Ṭālib.
• al-Zubayr - a well-respected and acclaimed poet.
• ʿAbd al-Kaʿbah
  • Their mother was Fāṭimah, daughter of ʿAmr b. ʿĀʾidh b. ʿImrān b. Makhzūm.
  • Her mother was Ṣakhrah, daughter of ʿAbd b. ʿImrān b. Makhzūm.
    • Ṣakhrah’s mother was Takhmar, daughter of ʿAbd b. Quṣayy b. Kilāb.
• al-ʿAbbās and Ḍirār
  • Their mother was Nutaylah, also known as Umm Sulaymān, the daughter of Janāb b. Kulayb b. Mālik b. ʿAmr b. ʿĀmir - ʿĀmir’s sobriquet was al-Ḍaḥyān - b. Saʿd b. al-Khazraj b. Taym-Allāh b. al-Namir b. Qāsiṭ b. Hinb.
    • ʿĀmir was known as “al-Ḍaḥyān” because he used to sit and arbitrate people during ḍuḥā (the morning hours before noon).
  • Nutaylah’s mother was Umm Ḥujr, the daughter of al-Azabb b. al-Ḥārith b. Bakīl - Bakīl was from the Clan of Hamdān
• Ḥamzah (رضي الله عنه), The Lion of Allāh and His Messenger - he was martyred on the Day of Uḥud, al-Muqawwam, Ḥajl, whose original name was Mughīrah, and al-ʿAwwām.
  • Their mother was Hālah, daughter of Uhayb b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Zuhrah b. Kilāb
• Abū Lahab - his original name was ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā.
  • ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā was a generous man, and he was nicknamed “Abū Lahab” by Abū Ṭālib because of his handsome face.
  • His mother was Lubnā, daughter of Hājir b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Ḍāṭir b. Ḥabashiyyah - Ḥabashiyyah was a tribesman from the Clan of Khuzāʿah.
• al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the eldest of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s sons ---.
  • al-Ḥārith’s uterine brother al-Aswad b. Ḥudhayfah b. Uqaysh b. ʿĀmir b. Bayāḍah b. Subayʿ b. Jiʿthimah.
    • According to Imām al-Kalbī: Juhaymah b. Saʿd b. Mulayḥ al-Khuzāʿī - - -
• Qutham, who passed away at a very young age and without progeny.
  • Their mother was Ṣafiyyah or Asmāʾ, daughter of Junaydib b. Juḥayr b. Ḥabīb b. Suwāʾah b. ʿĀmir b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah. (The Nawfaliyūn pronounce her name “Ṣafyah.”)

ʿAbd-Allāh²² fathered:

• The Chief of the Sons of Adam: Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وسلم
  • His mother (ʿAbd-Allāh’s) wife was Āminah, daughter of Wahb b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Zuhrah b. Kilāb.
  • Āminah’s mother was Barrah, daughter of ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Dār.
  • Barrah’s mother was Umm Ḥabīb, daughter of Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā.
  • Umm Ḥabīb’s mother was Barrah, daughter of ʿAwf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAwīj b. ʿAdiyy b. Kaʿb.
  • Barrah’s mother was Qilābah, daughter of al-Ḥārith of the Clan of Hudhayl b. Mudrikah.
  • Qilābah’s mother was Āminah, daughter of Ghanm b. Mālik of the Clan of Liḥyān of Hudhayl.

The paternal grandmother of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was Fāṭimah, daughter of ʿAmr b. ʿĀʾidh b. ʿImrān b. Makhzūm.

• Her mother was Takhmar, daughter of ʿAbd b. Quṣayy b. Kilāb.
• Takhmar’s mother was Salmā, daughter of ʿĀmir b. ʿUmayrah b. Wadīʿah b. al-Ḥārith of Fihr.
• The mother of Wahb, the maternal grandfather of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, Qaylah, daughter of “Abū Qaylah” Wajz b. Ghālib b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAmr  b. Luʾayy b. Milkān b. Afṣā b. Ḥārithah of Khuzāʿah.
  • According to Khuzāʿah (?): Abū Qaylah is Abū Kabshah.
  • Hishām reports: My father reported to me: Abū Qaylah was ʿAmr b. Zayd b. Labīd b. Khidāsh, the grandfather of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.

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Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb reports on the authority of Hishām b. Muḥammad b. al-Sāʾib, on the authority of his (Hishām’s) father (Muḥammad ), on the authority of Abī Ṣāliḥ, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنه), who said:

"Whenever the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) finished citing his lineage at Maʿadd b. ʿAdnān, he would pause and then say, 'The genealogists have lied. Allah - Glorious is His Praise - has said: ((And [there are] untold generations between that.)).'"

For the Arabic, as well as further lineages and detail, see: Ibn Muḥammad al-Kalbī, Abū al-Mundhir Hishām. Jamharat Al-Nasab. 1st ed. Beirut, Lebanon: Dār ʿĀlam al-Kutub, 1985.

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In Chapter Thirty of Baṣāʾir Dhawī al-Tamyīz, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb Fayrūzabādī writes:

Allah transferred him to the loins of Ādam (عليه السلام), then to Shīth (عليه السلام), then Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared (“Yarid or Yārid”), and then Enoch (Khunūkh or Ukhnūkh), who was Idrīs (عليهم السلام). From Idrīs (عليهم السلام), Allah moved him to the loins of Methuselah, then to Lamech (“Lāmak or Lamak”), then Nūḥ (عليهم السلام), Sām, Arphaxad (“Arfakhshadh or Alfakhshadh”), Reu/Ragau (“Rāʿū or Arghū”), Eber (“ʿĀbar or ʿAbīr”), Shālaḥ, Serug (ايشوع), Nahor, Terah (“Tāraḥ or Tīraḥ”), Āzar, and then to Ibrāhīm (عليهم السلام).

From Ibrāhīm (عليهم السلام), he was transferred to Ismāʿīl (عليهم السلام), then Qaydhār (or Qaydār), Ḥamal, Nābat, Yashjub, Yaʿrub, Udad, Udd, and then to ʿAdnān, the father of the Arabs.

From ʿAdnān, he passed through Maʿadd, Nizār, Muḍar, Ilyās, Hamaysaʿ, Ṭābikhah, Mudrikah, Khuzaymah, Kinānah, to Naḍr, whose real name was Qays - it is said that Qays was also “Quraysh,” the eponym for the Clan of Quraysh - to Mālik, Fihr, Ghālib, Luʾayy, and from him to Quṣayy, who was dubbed “The Ensembler.”

From Quṣayy, the Prophet ﷺ passed through ʿAbd Manāf, whose real name was al-Mughīrah, then Hāshim, then ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, whose real name was Shaybat al-Ḥamd, and then ʿAbdullāh, his father. Through ʿAbdullāh, he was brought to the Desert of the World (Arabia).

For the Arabic, as well as further information, see: Fayrūzabādī, Muḥammad B. Yaʿqūb. Baṣāʾir Dhawī Al-Tamyīz. Vol. 6. Cairo, Egypt: al-Majlis al-Aʿlā li al-Shuʾūn al-Islāmiyyah, 1973. Pages 10-11.