Banu Adi () was a clan of the
Quraysh
The Quraysh () are an Tribes of Arabia, Arab tribe who controlled Mecca before the rise of Islam. Their members were divided into ten main clans, most notably including the Banu Hashim, into which Islam's founding prophet Muhammad was born. By ...
tribe descended from Adi ibn Ka'b. The Banu Adi were with the
Mecca
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ns as part of the escort that preceded the
Battle of Badr; they did not join Quraysh further.
Notable members
Clan members include:
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Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second
caliph
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.
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Zayd ibn al-Khattab, (died 632) companion of
Muḥammad and the brother of Umar.
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Sa'id bin Zayd, (died 671) companion of Muḥammad.
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Zayd ibn Amr: (died 605) was a
monotheist who lived in
Mecca
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before Islam and father of Sa'id bin Zayd.
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Khattab ibn Nufayl: father of Caliph Umar
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Fatimah bint al-Khattab
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Zayd ibn Umar: son of Umar
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Abdullah ibn Umar: son of Caliph Umar
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Hafsa bint Umar: wife of Muhammad
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Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah: the only literate female
sahaba
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Asim ibn Umar: son of Umar, one of the
Tabi‘in.
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Salim ibn Abd-Allah (d. 728) was the ''
Tabi‘un
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'', scholar and hadith narrator. He was the grandson of Umar.
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Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Waqid al-Umari, the Governor of Yemen for the
Abbasid Caliphate
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from 813 to mid-814 CE.
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Abu Turab al-Zahiri
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jamīl bin ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq bin ʿAbd al-Waḥīd bin Muḥammad bin al-Hāshim bin Bilāl al-Hāshimī al-ʿUmarī al-ʿAdawī, better known as Abū Turāb al-Ẓāhirī (; 1 January 1923 – 4 May 2002), was an Indian Sa ...
: born in India of
Arab Indian descent
[Introduction of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Karīm to ''Abū Turāb al-Ẓāhirī, 1343-1423 H/1923-2002 M : ṣafaḥāt min ḥayātih-- wa-taʼammulāt fī adabih''. ]Riyadh
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: Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Waṭanīyah, 2008.
* Barrah bint Awf, maternal grandmother of
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza and great-great-grandmother of Muhammad
See also
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Family tree of Umar
References
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