The Prophet's lineage and its three parts

In al-Rahiq al-Makhtum, the lineage of the Prophet has three parts: a part on which the biographers and genealogists agree, which runs to Adnan; a part on which they differ, between those who suspend judgement and those who hold to it, which is what lies above Adnan up to Abraham; and a part of which the author has no doubt that it contains things that are not sound, which is what lies above Abraham up to Adam. ¹

Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, whose name was Shayba, ibn Hashim, whose name was Amr, ibn Abd Manaf, whose name was al-Mughira, ibn Qusayy, whose name was Zayd, ibn Kilab ibn Murra ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr, who is called Quraysh and from whom the tribe takes its name, ibn Malik ibn al-Nadr, whose name was Qays, ibn Kinana ibn Khuzayma ibn Mudrika, whose name was Amir, ibn Ilyas ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma'add ibn Adnan. ^{1 2 3 4}

The author gives a series of nearly forty names from Adnan ibn Udd to Qaydar ibn Isma'il ibn Ibrahim, and notes that al-Mansurfuri compiled this part on the transmission of al-Kalbi and Ibn Sa'd after close investigation, and that there is great disagreement about it among the historical sources. ^{1 5} In the entry on Adnan there is the disagreement over raising the lineage beyond him, and the saying "the genealogists lied." ⁶

Ibrahim ibn Tarah, whose name was Azar, ibn Nahur ibn Sarugh or Saruqh ibn Ra'u ibn Falakh ibn Abir ibn Shalakh ibn Arpakhshad ibn Sam ibn Nuh ibn Lamak ibn Mutawshalakh ibn Akhnukh, who is said to be Idris, ibn Yard ibn Mahla'il ibn Qaynan ibn Anush ibn Shith ibn Adam. ^{7 8 9 10} The author notes that these sources differed in the pronunciation of some names, and some names dropped out of some of them. ⁷

The Prophet's family is known as the Hashimite family, after his grandfather Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, and so the author treats the conditions of Hashim and those after him. ⁷; see the Banu Hashim.

The names that dropped out of some sources, the comparison between the accounts of the genealogists, and the academic view of Arab genealogies have not yet been added.