Banu Abd Shams () refers to a clan within the Meccan tribe of Quraysh.

Ancestry

The clan names itself after

Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ( ar, عبد شمس بن عبد مناف) was a prominent member of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The Banu Abd Shams sub-clan of the Quraish tribe and their descendants take its name from him. ...

, the son of

Abd Manaf ibn Qusai Abd Manaf al-Mughirah ibn Qusai ( ar, عبد مناف ٱلمغيرة ٱبن قصي, ''ʿAbd Manāf al-Mughīrah ibn Quṣayy'') was a Qurayshi and great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His father was Quṣai ibn Kilāb. Biogr ...

and brother of

Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf ( ar, هاشم بن عبد مناف; ), born ʿAmr al-ʿUlā (), was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the ruling Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. At some point in ...

, who was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He married Layla bint Asad ibn Abdal-Uzza, she bore four sons, Habib, Rabi'a, Abd Al-Uzza, Umayya and one daughter, Ruqayyah.

Banu Rabi'ah

Banu Rabi'ah was a branch that only had a few chiefs, they are: 1. Abu Hudhayfa Qays ibn 'Utba 2.

Hind bint Utbah Hind bint ʿUtba ( ar, هند بنت عتبة), was an Arab woman who lived in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE; she was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, a powerful man of Mecca, in western Arabia. She was the mother of Mu'awiya I, the foun ...

3. Walid ibn Utbah 4. Utbah ibn Rabi'ah 5.

Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa (Arabic: محمد بن أبي حذيفة ) was the son of Abu Hudhayfa ibn 'Utba and Sahla bint Suhail. Since his father adopted Salim Mawla Abi Hudhayfa as his son, Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa and Salim Mawla Abi Hudh ...

6. Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah

Connection with the Umayyads

The clan acts as the parent clan to

Banu Umayya Umayyad dynasty ( ar, بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, Banū Umayya, Sons of Umayya) or Umayyads ( ar, الأمويون, al-Umawiyyūn) were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of Al-Andalus between 756 and 1031. In the ...

sub-clan, the widely known Umayyad dynasty who ruled as the second

Islamic Caliphate A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...

(661–750) established after Muhammad's death. Umayya was the son of

. In

pre-Islamic Arabia Pre-Islamic Arabia ( ar, شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام) refers to the Arabian Peninsula before the emergence of Islam in 610 CE. Some of the settled communities developed into distinctive civilizations. Information ...

, the clan's chieftain

Utba ibn Rabi'ah ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah () (), also known as Abū al-Walīd () was one of the prominent pagan leaders of the Quraysh during the era of Muhammad. He is the father of Abu Hudhayfa ibn 'Utba, Walid ibn Utbah, Hind bint Utbah and father-in-law of Ab ...

's daughter

was married to Umayyad leader

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams ( ar, صخر بن حرب بن أمية بن عبد شمس, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams; ), better known by his '' kunya'' Abu Sufyan ( ar, أبو سفيان, Abū Sufyān), was a prominent ...

Modern day

The clan has its descendants living today in a few cities of Central and Western

Arabia The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...

Members

The following were members. *

Uthman Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic proph ...

, the third Muslim Caliph, son-in-law & close Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad. Uthman was the direct member of Banu Abd-Shams tribe through

clan. *

Arwa bint Kurayz Arwā bint Kurayz ( ar, أَرْوَى بِنْت كُرَيْز) was the mother of Uthman ibn Affan, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the third of the ''Rashidun'' or "Rightly Guided Caliphs". Ancestry Arwa was the daughter o ...

, mother of caliph Uthman, female Companion & first cousin of Muhammad. * Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, chieftain *

Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabee Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ( ar, أبو العاص بن الربيع, died in February, AD 634), was a son-in-law and Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His original name was said to have been Hushaym or Yasser. Family He was the ...

, companion and son-in-law of Muhammad and

Khadija Khadija, Khadeeja or Khadijah ( ar, خديجة, Khadīja) is an Arabic feminine given name, the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1995, it was one of the three most popular Arabic feminine names in th ...

. Husband of Zainab bint Muhammad. *

Umamah bint Abi al-As Umāma bint Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ( ar, أُمَامَة بِنْت أَبِي ٱلْعَاص ابْن ٱلرَّبِيْع}), was a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadija, via their daughter Zaynab, and is thus also ...

, grand daughter of Muhammad and Khadija. Wife of fourth Muslim caliph and first shia Imam

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

* Walid ibn Utbah, son of Utbah *

, daughter of Utbah *

Abu Hudhayfah ibn Utbah Abū Ḥudhayfa ibn ʿUtba (Arabic: أبو حذيفة بن عتبة; died 633), full name Abū Ḥudhayfa ibn ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa was an early companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was the son of Utba ibn Rabi'a, one of the Leaders of Ba ...

, son of Utbah and companion of Muhammad * Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah, brother of Utbah

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