Ma'add ibn 'Adnan
معد بن عدنان
The Adnani forefather at whom the Prophet ﷺ bade genealogy stop — above him the copies diverge, in Ibn Hisham's rescension, another version, and Ibn al-A'rabi's from Hisham al-Kalbi 1.
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Overview
Ma'add ibn Adnan, from whose descendants the Nizar and all the clans of the Adnanite Arabs branched out. 2
In al-Rahiq al-Makhtum
The sons of Qaydar ibn Isma'il kept multiplying in Mecca until Adnan was born, and then his son Ma'add. 2 3 The clans of Ma'add branched out from his son Nizar, and it is said that Ma'add had no other son. 2 4
In the days of Nebuchadnezzar
The Adnanite clans dispersed toward Yemen at the second campaign of Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BCE. The prophet Jeremiah took Ma'add to Syria. When Nebuchadnezzar's pressure lifted, Ma'add returned to Mecca and found among the Jurhum only Jurshum ibn Jalhama, and he married his daughter Ma'ana, who bore him Nizar. 5 6 This is a report the author relays from Rahmah lil-Alamin alone, and it has not been checked against a second source.
What is not stated here
What al-Mas'udi relates about stopping at Ma'add in lineage is recorded in this entry's data.
For young visitors
Ma'add was the son of Adnan. All the Adnanite tribes of Arabia came from his son Nizar.
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 565-566
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p.20
- Qalb Jazirat al-Arab — Fuʾad Hamza, p.230
- Muhadarat Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamiyya — Muhammad al-Khudari, 1/14-15
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p.28
- Rahma lil-Alamin — al-Mansur Furi, 2/48
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