Qusayy ibn Kilab, Gatherer of Quraysh
In the hadithGatherer of Quraysh
Qusayy ibn Kilabقصي بن كلاب
Traditional date, disputedMakkah
The ancestor who brought Quraysh into Makkah and took charge of the Kaaba.
Qusayy gathered the scattered clans of Quraysh and settled them around the Kaaba, taking its keys from Khuza'ah. He built Dar al-Nadwa, the council house, and organised the duties of Makkah: water and food for pilgrims, the Kaaba's keys, and the war banner.
What grew out of it?
His sons and grandsons, including Hashim, inherited these duties down to the Prophet's ﷺ family.
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
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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