Genealogy & Year of the Elephant

1. SEERAH OF THE
PROPHET(SWS)
Slides based on Seerah Series done
by Yasir
Qadhi
SLIDE#: SL5.1
TOPIC: Genealogy & Year of the Elephant

2. PART I
(00:00 – 10:02)

3. • Who are the Arabs?
• Standard narrative: Arabs have two broad
categories:
– 1. Extinct/Ancient Arabs/ Arab Al-Bayidah  the
earliest civilization in Arabia. They don’t exist
anymore and most likely all died out.
– 2. Remaining Arabs/Arab-Al Bakyiah  two
categories:
• A) Arab-Al-Ariba  the pure Arabs
• B) Arab Al-Mustaribah  people who became Arabs

4. • Arab Al-Ariba  Qahtani Arabs  found in
Southern parts of Arabia
• Qahtan was one of the descendants of Sam
• We get the term Semites from Sam
• From Nuh(a), the three sons started all the races,
according to the Bible and Islamically:
– Sam was the father of Arabs
– Yafis is the father of the Romans
– Ham is the father of the Africans

5. • Both Ibrahim(a) and Qahtan are Sam, Semites
• Qahtani Arabs and the Adnani Arabs are the
two big categories of Arabs
• The Adnani Arabs are decendents of Ismail
who were Arabicized
• Arabic came from the Qahtani Arabs
• Ibrahim (a) most likely spoke a language closer
to Hebrew than Arabic
• Adnan is a direct ancestor of the Prophet(sws)
• The Prophet is the 20th grandson of Adnan

6. • Before, anyone who knew the long lineage of
themselves and people were considered to be
well-educated
• Arabs would pride themselves over the
knowledege of lineage

7. Questions
1. What are the two categories of Arabs?
2. What are the two categories of the remaining
Arabs?
3. Classify where the Prophet(sws) would fall in
terms of what type of Arab he is and who he
comes from?

8. PART II
(10:03 – 20:09)

9. • When did Adnan live?
• The son of Adnan lived in the same time as
Isa(a) so Adnan lived one generation before
Isa(a)
• 570 years between Isa(a) and the Prophet
Muhammed(sws)
• Adnan lived around 30 BC
• Qahtan predates Adnan

10. • The lineage of the Prophet(sws) is divided into
three categories:
– 1. Between Adnan and him is 20 generations(sure)
– 2. From Adnan to Ismail (the Bible does not care
about Ismail’s lineage, so does not mention it) So the
information is gotten from Arabic folklore. We don’t
know how many generations between the two.
– 3. From Ismail to Adam(a). The Torah, the Old
Testament has the only source of information about
this. We can’t rely on this.

11. Questions
1. When did Adnan live?
2. How many years in between the Prophet (sws)
and Isa (a)?
3. What are the three categories of the
Prophet(sws)’s lineage?
4. Which category do we know for sure?
5. Why can’t we be sure about the other two
categories?

12. The complete lecture can be found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=629isa8LujE