Tarikh (al-Tabari) 458
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
عَدْنَانَ بِفَتْحِ الْعَيْنِ وَإِسْكَانِ الدَّالِ الْمُهْمَلَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ نُونَيْنِ بَيْنَهُمَا أَلِفٌ: مَأْخُوذٌ مِنْ عَدَنَ بِالْمَكَانِ إِذَا أَقَامَ بِهِ. حَكَاهُ ابْنُ الْأَنْبَارِيِّ وَالزَّجَّاجِيُّ وَغَيْرُهُمَا. وَكُنْيَتُهُ أَبُو مَعَدٍّ عَدْنَانُ بْنُ أُدَدَ بْنِ مُقَوَّمِ بْنِ نَاحُورَ بْنِ تَيْرَحَ بْنِ يَعْرُبَ بْنِ يَشْجُبَ بْنِ نَابِتِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْخَلِيلِ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ، وَهَكَذَا ذَكَرَهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ يَسَارَ فِي السِّيرَةِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ عَدْنَانُ بْنُ أُدٍّ يَعْنِي: عَدْنَانَ بْنِ أُدِّ بْنِ أُدَدَ، ثُمَّ سَاقَ أَبُو عُمَرَ بَقِيَّةَ النَّسَبِ إِلَى آدَمَ كَمَا قَدَّمْنَاهُ فِي قِصَّةِ الْخَلِيلِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ. وَأَمَّا الْأَنْسَابُ إِلَى عَدْنَانَ مِنْ سَائِرِ قَبَائِلِ الْعَرَبِ فَمَحْفُوظَةٌ شَهِيرَةٌ جِدًّا لَا يَتَمَارَى فِيهَا اثْنَانِ وَالنَّسَبُ النَّبَوِيُّ إِلَيْهِ أَظْهَرُ وَأَوْضَحُ مِنْ فَلَقِ الصُّبْحِ. وَلِعَدْنَانَ أَخَوَانِ يُدْعَى أَحَدُهُمَا نَبْتًا، وَالْآخَرُ عَامِرًا، فَنَسَبُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَا يَخْتَلِفُ النَّاسِبُونَ فِيهِ إِلَى مَعَدِّ بْنِ عَدْنَانَ، عَلَى مَا ذَكَرْتُ، وَيَخْتَلِفُونَ فِيمَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ اخْتِلَافًا عَظِيمًا لَا يُحْصَلُ مِنْهُ عَلَى غَرَضٍ، فَتَارَةً يَجْعَلُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَيْنَ عَدْنَانَ وَبَيْنَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، أَرْبَعَةَ آبَاءٍ، وَيَجْعَلُ آخَرُ بَيْنَهُمَا أَرْبَعِينَ أَبًا، وَيَخْتَلِفُونَ أَيْضًا فِي الْأَسْمَاءِ أَشَدَّ مِنَ اخْتِلَافِهِمْ فِي الْعَدَدِ، فَحَيْثُ رَأَيْتُ الْأَمْرَ كَذَلِكَ لَمْ أُعَرِّجْ عَلَى ذِكْرِ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَرْوِي عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي نَسَبِهِ حَدِيثًا يَصِلْهُ بِإِسْمَاعِيلَ، وَلَا يَصِحُّ فِي ذَلِكَ الْحَدِيثُ.
Translation
✧ ʿAdnān, with a fatḥah on the ʿayn and a sukūn on the unpointed dāl, then two nūns with an alif between them: derived from ʿadana bi-l-makān, meaning "he stayed in the place." This was mentioned by Ibn al-Anbārī, al-Zajjājī, and others. His kunyah is Abū Maʿadd ʿAdnān b. Udad b. Muqawwim b. Nāḥūr b. Tayraḥ b. Yaʿrub b. Yashjub b. Nābit b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl, upon both of them be peace. This is how Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yasār mentioned it in the Sīrah. Ibn Hishām said: It is also said ʿAdnān b. Udd, meaning ʿAdnān b. Udd b. Udad. Then Abū ʿUmar traced the rest of the lineage to Adam as we have presented earlier in the story of al-Khalīl, upon him be peace. As for the genealogies from ʿAdnān among all the Arab tribes, they are well preserved and very famous, about which no two people dispute, and the Prophetic lineage to him is clearer and more evident than the break of dawn. ʿAdnān had two brothers, one called Nabt and the other ʿĀmir. The lineage of the Prophet ﷺ is not disputed by genealogists up to Maʿadd b. ʿAdnān, as I have mentioned, but they differ greatly beyond that, such that no certain conclusion can be reached. Sometimes some place between ʿAdnān and Ismāʿīl, upon him be peace, four fathers, while others place forty fathers between them. They also differ in the names more severely than in the number. Since I found the matter to be so, I have refrained from mentioning any of it. Some of them relate a ḥadīth from the Prophet ﷺ about his lineage connecting it to Ismāʿīl, but the ḥadīth concerning that is not authentic.
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