Ismail (Ishmael)

Isma'il son of Ibrahim and Hagar: settled in Mecca as a suckling infant, married from Jurhum, helped his father build the House, and is the uppermost ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs.

His father settled him as a suckling with his mother in Mecca's valley; when he grew up and learned Arabic from Jurhum, they married him to a woman of theirs, whom he divorced at his father's signal, then he married the daughter of Mudad ibn Amr, Jurhum's chief ¹.

God gave him by her twelve sons: Nabit, Qaydar, Adba'il, Mibsham, Mishma', Duma, Misha, Hadad, Yatma, Yatur, Nafis and Qaydman — from whom branched twelve tribes that dwelt at Mecca then spread across the Peninsula ².

He held the leadership of Mecca and the rule of the House all his life, and died at 137 years in the Genesis account ³. His sons kept an honoured station for what their father had of building the House ⁴. From his son Qaydar came Adnan, and from his line the Adnanite Arabs kept their genealogies ⁵.