Nizar ibn Ma'add

Nizar ibn Maadd ibn Adnan. The branches of Maadd spread out from his son Nizar. Some say Maadd had no other son. Nizar had four sons, from whom four great tribes branched: Iyad, Anmar, Rabi'a and Mudar ^{2 3}.

Rabi'a and Mudar are the two whose branches grew many and whose clans spread widely ². In the account of al-Rahiq, his mother was Mu'ana bint Jurhum ibn Jalhama al-Jurhumi, whom Maadd married when he returned to Mecca after the pressure of Nebuchadnezzar had been exposed ^{4 5}.

The story of Nizar dividing his inheritance among his sons, as al-Mas'udi tells it, is recorded in the data of this entry.