Adnan, Ancestor of the northern Arabs
In the hadithAncestor of the northern Arabs
Adnanعدنان
The Quran gives no dateHijaz
Forefather of the Prophet ﷺ, the furthest point of his agreed lineage.
Adnan is the ancestor of the northern Arab tribes, descended from Ismail. The genealogists agree on the Prophet's ﷺ lineage back to Adnan. Between Adnan and Ismail, the names and number of generations are disputed.
What grew out of it?
Quraysh, Kinanah, Tamim and many tribes trace back to him.
Who else is linked?
Source: history · Wikipedia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani