Tarikh (al-Tabari) 456
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
[ قُنُصُ بْنُ مَعَدٍّ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَأَمَّا قُنُصُ بْنُ مَعَدٍّ فَهَلَكَتْ بَقِيَّتُهُمْ - فِيمَا يَزْعُمُ نُسَّابُ مَعَدٍّ - وَكَانَ مِنْهُمْ النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ مَلِكُ الْحِيرَةِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ الزُّهْرِيُّ: أَنَّ النُّعْمَانَ بْنَ الْمُنْذِرِ كَانَ مِنْ وَلَدِ قُنُصِ بْنِ مَعَدٍّ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: قَنَصَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ الْأَخْنَسِ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ مِنْ بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ: أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ حِينَ أُتِيَ بِسَيْفِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ، دَعَا جُبَيْرَ بْنَ مُطْعِمِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ نَوْفَلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافِ بْنِ قُصَيِّ - وَكَانَ جُبَيْرُ مِنْ أَنْسَبِ قُرَيْشٍ لِقُرَيْشِ وَلِلْعَرَبِ قَاطِبَةً، وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: إنَّمَا أَخَذْتُ النَّسَبَ مِنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ ؓ، وَكَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُ أَنْسَبَ الْعَرَبِ - فَسَلَّحَهُ إيَّاهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مِمَّنْ كَانَ يَا جُبَيْرُ، النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ ؟ فَقَالَ: كَانَ مِنْ أَشْلَاءِ قُنُصِ بْنِ مَعَدٍّ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَأَمَّا سَائِرُ الْعَرَبِ فَيَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ رَجُلًا مِنْ لَخْمٍ مِنْ وَلَدِ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نَصْرٍ، فَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَيُّ ذَلِكَ كَانَ.
Translation
✧ [ Qunuṣ b. Maʿadd ] Ibn Isḥāq said: As for Qunuṣ b. Maʿadd, their remnant perished—as the genealogists of Maʿadd claim—and among them was al-Nuʿmān b. al-Mundhir, king of al-Ḥīrah. Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Muslim b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Shihāb al-Zuhrī related to me that al-Nuʿmān b. al-Mundhir was among the descendants of Qunuṣ b. Maʿadd. Ibn Hishām said: It is also said: Qanaṣ. Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaʿqūb b. ʿUtbah b. al-Mughīrah b. al-Akhnas related to me, from an elder of the Anṣār from Banū Zurayq, that he related to him: that ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb ؓ, when the sword of al-Nuʿmān b. al-Mundhir was brought to him, summoned Jubayr b. Muṭʿim b. ʿAdī b. Nawfal b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy—and Jubayr was among the most knowledgeable of Quraysh in the genealogy of Quraysh and of the Arabs altogether, and he used to say: “I took genealogy only from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq ؓ, and Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq was the most knowledgeable in genealogy of the Arabs”—and he entrusted it to him, then said: “From whom was al-Nuʿmān b. al-Mundhir, O Jubayr?” He said: “He was from the remnants of Qunuṣ b. Maʿadd.” Ibn Isḥāq said: As for the rest of the Arabs, they claim that he was a man from Lakhm, from the descendants of Rabīʿah b. Naṣr, but God knows best which of that was the case.
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