Banu Kinanah - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Banu Kinanah is the largest Adnanite

Adnan (name)

Adnan is an Arabic male name common in the Muslim world. Its eponymous bearer was Adnan, an ancestor of Muhammad. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a semitic root ; to stay, abide.-Given name:...

tribe of western Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

in Hejaz

Hejaz

al-Hejaz, also Hijaz is a region in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia. Defined primarily by its western border on the Red Sea, it extends from Haql on the Gulf of Aqaba to Jizan. Its main city is Jeddah, but it is probably better known for the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina...

. Since Islamization they started to claim that they are descended from Kinanah, who was a grandson of Ilyas (known as Elijah in Jewish and Christian traditions) who was named after the prophet Elijah.

Ancestry

The tribe traces a genealogical history backwards from their eponymous ancestor to Adam:
Kinanah ibn

IBN

IBN or ibn may refer to:In general* ibn, patronymic in Arabic personal names * IBN code page , a Nordic language code page under MS-DOS...

("son of") Khuzaimah ibn Madrakah ibn Ilyas ( Elijah) ibn Madher

Mudhar

Mudhar or Mudar , is one of two major branches of the "North arabian" tribes, the other branch being Rabi'ah....

ibn Nazar

Nazar

Nazar may refer to:* Nazar , or evil eye stone, is an amulet of stone or glass which is believed to protect against evil eye, widely used in Turkey* Nazar , a masculine given name....

ibn Ma'ad ibn Adnan

Adnan

Adnan is the traditional ancestor of the Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtani of Southern and south eastern Arabia who descend from Qahtan.-Origin:...

ibn Add ibn Send ibn Napyot

Nebaioth

Nebaioth is mentioned at least five times in the Hebrew Bible according to which he was the firstborn son of Ishmael, and the name appears as the name of one of the wilderness tribes mentioned in the Book of Genesis 25:13, and in the Book of Isaiah 60:7.-Biblical occurrences:In the Book of...

ibn Ishmael
Ishmael
Ishmael is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, and was Abraham's first born child according to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Ishmael was born of Abraham's marriage to Sarah's handmaiden Hagar...

ibn Abraham

Abraham

Abraham , whose birth name was Abram, is the eponym of the Abrahamic religions, among which are Judaism, Christianity and Islam...

ibn Azar

Azar

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(Terah) ibn Nahoor

Nahor

Nahor, Nachor, or Naghor may refer to three different names in the Hebrew bible: two biblical people, who were both descendants of Shem, and one biblical place named after one of these descendants....

ibn Srooj

Serug

Serug was the son of Reu and the father of Nahor, according to Genesis 11:20-23. He is also the great-grandfather of Abraham.In the Masoretic text that modern Bibles are based on, he was 30 when Nahor was born, and lived to the age of 230...

ibn Ra'o

Reu

Reu or Ragau in Genesis was the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus being Abraham's great-great-grandfather.He was 32 when Serug was born and lived to the age of 239 , according to the Masoretic text...

ibn Phaleg

Peleg

__notoc__Peleg is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Israelites, according to the "Table of Nations" in and . Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Hebrew Bible, Peleg lived to the age...

ibn Aber

Eber

Eber is an ancestor of the Israelites, according to the "Table of Nations" in and . He was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah a distant ancestor of Abraham...

ibn Shaleh ibn Arpheckshad

Arpachshad

Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah . His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham. He is said by Gen...

ibn Sam

Shem

Shem was one of the sons of Noah in the Hebrew Bible as well as in Islamic literature. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son. Genesis 10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity in each...

ibn Noah

Noah

Noah was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The biblical story of Noah is contained in chapters 6–9 of the book of Genesis, where he saves his family and representatives of all animals from the flood by constructing an ark...

ibn Lamek

Lamech

Lamech is a character in the genealogies of Adam in the Book of Genesis. He is the sixth generation descendant of Cain ; his father was named Methusael, and he was responsible for the "Song of the Sword." He is also noted as the first polygamist mentioned in the Bible, taking two wives, Ada and...

ibn Motoshaleh

Methuselah

Methuselah is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 , at the age of 969, seven days before the beginning of the Great Flood...

ibn Edres

Enoch (ancestor of Noah)

Enoch is a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is described as Adam's greatx4 grandson , the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah...

(Enoch) ibn Yared

Jared (ancestor of Noah)

Jared, or Jered, in Judeo-Christian religious belief was a fifth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve.- Tradition :...

ibn Mehlaiel

Mahalalel

Mahalalel, Mahalaleel, or Mihlaiel Hebrew מהללאל was a patriarch named in the Hebrew Bible.- Family :Mahalalel was a son of Kenan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam in the Old Testament of the Bible...

ibn Qenan

Kenan

Kenan , , or Cainan, was a Biblical patriarch first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible Book of Genesis as living before the Great Flood.- Family :...

ibn Anosh ibn Sheeth ibn Adam

Branches

Banu Kinanah are divided in four branches: An-Nadr, Abdumanat, Malakan, and Malak. Some historians added Aamir, Amr, Alharith, Alnazer, Ghanam, Saad, Aof, Jarwal, Alhudal, Ghazwan, Muhriyah.

An-Nadr ibn Kinanah

An-Nadr is Quraysh, the 12th grandfather of the prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

Abdumanat ibn Kinanah

This is one of the biggest branches of Kinanah, and his sons are Murrah, Bakr, Alharith.

Banu Laith, Banu Dhumrah, Banu Ghufar, Banu Jadhimah

Banu Jadhimah

Banu Jadhimah was one of the Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad. It was "of Ta'if" and it is a branch of Banu Kinanah which is the mother tribe of Quraysh, the tribe of the prophet Mohammed-History:...

, Banu Mudlij, Banu Aldiil, and Banu Sho'bah are the descendants of Abdumanat.

Malak (Malik) ibn Kinanah

Ban Firas ibn Ghanam ibn Thaalabah ibn Alharith ibn Malak ibn Kinanah were the best warriors of Ali

Ali

' |Ramaḍān]], 40 AH; approximately October 23, 598 or 600 or March 17, 599 – January 27, 661).His father's name was Abu Talib. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661, and was the first male convert to Islam...

Malakan ibn Kinanah

He is the first man to be named Malakan, and his sons are Haram, Thaalabah, Saad, Ausaid, and Ghanam.

Relative tribes

Quraish
Bani Asad
Hothail
Banu Hothail
Banu Hothail are an Adnanite tribe of western Saudi Arabia in Hijjaz. They are descended from Hothail, who was a grandson of Ilyas who was named after the prophet Elijah.- Ancestry :...
Sulaim
Isaaq
Isaaq
The Isaaq is one of the main Somali clans. Members of the clan principally live in the northwestern Somaliland region of Somalia, and the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The populations of five major cities of Somaliland – Hargeisa, Burco, Berbera, Ceerigaabo and Gabiley – are predominantly Isaaq...

clan
Tamim
Thaqif
Huwazin
Banu Ghatafan
Banu Ghatafan
Banu Ghatafan are a massive ancient tribe north of Medinah and from them come the tribes of Banu Abs and Ashga and Banu Thibyaan. They were one of the Arab tribes that interacted with Muhammad. They are notable for allying themselves with the Banu Quraish in the Battle of the trench....

External links

قبيلة كنانة المضرية
قبيلة كنانة
http://www.alnssabon.com/vb/showthread.php?p=14586
http://www.thearabhistory.com/mudar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_tribes_that_interacted_with_Muhammad
http://sirah.al-islam.com/tree.asp?ID=1&t=book2
http://sirah.al-islam.com/Display.asp?f=rwd1012
http://sirah.al-islam.com/Display.asp?f=rwd1014
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/J1arabproject/default.aspx
http://whitebook.com/p_1_en.htm

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