{
 "id": "person/kab-ibn-luayy",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "kab-ibn-luayy",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كعب بن لؤي",
  "en": "Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من صناديد قريش قبل الإسلام؛ كان يجمع قومه يوم الجمعة — ولذلك سمي يوم كعب — ويخبرهم بما قرأ في الكتب السابقة عن نبي يخرج من صلبه ويأمرهم باتباعه {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.48}.",
  "en": "One of the grandees of pre-Islamic Quraysh; he gathered his people on Fridays — hence 'the day of Ka'b' — telling them what he had read in the earlier scriptures about a prophet who would come from his loins, and bidding them follow him {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.48}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [
  "ansab-browser",
  "ansab-shajara"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ansab-browser lane — prophetic-lineage records",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium); ansab-browser lane",
   "run": "ansab-browser-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/tarikh-al-tabari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium); ansab-browser lane"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "من صناديد قريش قبل الإسلام؛ كان يجمع قومه يوم الجمعة — ولذلك سمي يوم كعب — ويخبرهم بما قرأ في الكتب السابقة عن نبي يخرج من صلبه ويأمرهم باتباعه {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.48}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعه في النسب",
     "markdown": "كان يقول لقريش في جمعهم: اسمعوا وعوا، وأدركوا واعرفوا، وأطيعوا لتفلحوا؛ فيكرمكم الله برجل يخرج من صلبي فيعظم شأنه ويعلو ذكره {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كعب بن لؤي من أجداد النبي في القسم الذي اتفق عليه علماء النسب، من عدنان إلى عبد الله بن عبد المطلب."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kab-ibn-luayy",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-12"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "One of the grandees of pre-Islamic Quraysh; he gathered his people on Fridays — hence 'the day of Ka'b' — telling them what he had read in the earlier scriptures about a prophet who would come from his loins, and bidding them follow him {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.48}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His place in the lineage",
     "markdown": "He would say to the gathered Quraysh: hear, understand, retain and obey, and you shall prosper — for God will honour you with a man who comes from my loins whose affair grows great and whose name is raised high {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For younger visitors",
     "markdown": "Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy is one of the Prophet's ancestors in the part of the lineage the genealogists agree on, from Adnan down to Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kab-ibn-luayy",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-12"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "كعب بن لؤي نبوی نسب کے متفق شدہ حصے کی ایک کڑی ہے — اس کا ذکر اہل سیر اور نساب کی کتابوں میں عدنان سے عبداللہ بن عبدالمطلب تک کی زنجیر میں آتا ہے {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.48}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نسب میں مقام",
     "markdown": "He would say to the gathered Quraysh: hear, understand, retain and obey, and you shall prosper — for God will honour you with a man who comes from my loins whose affair grows great and whose name is raised high {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/1-4}.۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "چھوٹے زائرین کے لیے",
     "markdown": "كعب بن لؤي نبی کے وہ اجداد ہیں جن پر نساب متفق ہیں۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kab-ibn-luayy",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-12"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-12",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/luayy-ibn-ghalib",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
    "source/tarikh-al-tabari"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/murra-ibn-kab",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
    "source/tarikh-al-tabari"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/ghalib-ibn-fihr",
  "person/kilab-ibn-murrah",
  "person/luayy-ibn-ghalib",
  "person/murra-ibn-kab",
  "building/taj-mahal",
  "concept/al-bayt-al-muslim",
  "concept/al-muasharah-bil-maruf",
  "concept/al-qiwama"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}