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Adnani Arabs trace their lineage to Adnan bin Ma'ad bin Nizar who descends from Ismail bin Abraham in 40 generations through his Ismail's son Qidar.

1 Adnan replacing Qidar, Nizar and Ma'ad lineage
2 The tribes origin
- 2.1 Ismail in Mecca
- 2.2 The Sons of Ismail
3 Between Qidar and Adnan
4 Nizar bin Ma'ad Bin Adnan
5 Rabi'a bin Nizar tribes
- 5.1 Mudar bin Nizar tribes
  - 5.1.1 Elias bin Mudar tribes
- 5.2 Qais 'Ailan bin Mudar tribes
6 Notes
7 Historic Sources

Adnan replacing Qidar, Nizar and Ma'ad lineage

In the 5th century AD the Kindites and Himyarites known the tribes of Nejd as the Ma'ad tribes. The Adnani term became favored after Islam, because it was said that whenever Muhammad spoke of his ancestry he would cite 21 generations between himself and Adnan stopping at ‘Adnan and saying: Genealogists tell lies and did not go farther than him. A group of scholars, however, favored the probability of going beyond ‘Adnan attaching no significance to the aforementioned Hadith. They went on to say that there were exactly 40 fathers between ‘Adnan and Abraham and 40 fathers between Abraham and Qahtan^[1]

The tribes origin

Ismail in Mecca

When Abraham left him with his mother Hagar in Mecca he was found with her by the Qahtani tribe of Jurhum, who took care of Ismail as one of their own. When Ismail became a young man, he learned Arabic at the hand of the tribe of Jurhum, who loved him with great admiration and gave him one of their women as a wife, soon after his mother died. Having wanted to see his wife and son again, Abraham came to Mecca, after Ismail's marriage, but he didn't find him at home. He asked Ismail's wife about her husband and how they were doing. She complained of poverty, so he asked her to tell Ismail to change his doorstep. Ismail understood the message, divorced his wife and got married to the daughter of Mudad bin Amr, chief of the tribe of Jurhum.

Once more, Abraham came to see his son, but again didn't find him at home. He asked his new wife the same previous question, to which she thanked God. Abraham asked her to tell Ismail to keep his doorstep and went back to Judea. A third time, Abraham came to Mecca to find Ismail sharpening an arrow under a lofty tree near Zamzam. The meeting, after a very long journey of separation, was very touching for a father so affectionate and a so dutiful and righteous son. This time, father and son built Al-Ka'abah and raised its pillars, and Abraham, in compliance with God's Commandment, called unto people to make pilgrimage to it.

The Sons of Ismail

By the grace of God, Ismail had twelve sons from the daughter of Mudad, whose names were Nabet, Qidar, Edbael, Mebsham, Mishma', Duma, Micha, Hudud, Yetma, Yetour, Nafis and Qidman, and who ultimately formed twelve tribes inhabiting Makkah and trading between Yemen, geographical Syria and Egypt. Later on, these tribes spread all over the Near East. All their tidings went into oblivion except for the descendants of Nabet and Qidar. Descendants of Qidar, the son of Ismail, lived long in Mecca increasing in number, of them issued Adnan and son Ma'ad, to whom the Adnanian Arabs traced back their ancestry. Adnan is the twenty-first grandfather in the series of the ghetic ancestry. ^[2]

Between Qidar and Adnan

There are 18 fathers between Qidar and Adnan. Mudad bin Amr the chief of the Qahtani tribe of Jurhum was the maternal grandfather of Qidar. And some historians assume that Qidar and his became the chiefs of Jurhum from this point on. However, the tribe remained Qahtani until Ma'ad bin Nizar unified the tribes and they became known as Ma'adi in Nejd^[3] and Nizari in Oman^[4]

Nizar bin Ma'ad Bin Adnan

Nizar, Ma‘ad’s only son , had four sons who branched out into four great tribes; Eyad, Anmar, Rabi‘a and Mudar. the last two branched into sub tribes.