The family and lineage of Muhammadﷺ

Arrows run from parent to child. Hover or tap a name to trace its line back to the Prophet ﷺ.

Agreed by biographers and genealogistsDisputedContains incorrect namesArrow = “son of”

Agreed by biographers and genealogistsDisputedContains incorrect namesArrow = “son of”

Agreed by biographers and genealogistsDisputedContains incorrect namesArrow = “son of”

Family tree

1. [F1]Qur’an, Surah al-Ahzab 33:40.Muhammad ﷺ as the Messenger of Allah.
2. [F2]al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, entry “Fatimah bint Rasul Allah ﷺ”.Fatimah as the Prophet’s ﷺ daughter; al-Hasan and al-Husayn as sons of Fatimah and ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib.
3. [F3]al-Dhahabi, Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 13, pp. 120–122, entry al-Muntazar.The line from al-Husayn to al-Hasan al-‘Askari, and the disagreement recorded after him.
4. [F4]Ibn Hazm, Jamharat Ansab al-‘Arab, ed. ‘Abd al-Salam Harun (Cairo: Dar al-Ma‘arif, 1962), p. 38 and pp. 52–61.p. 38: al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan and Zayd ibn al-Hasan as the sons of al-Hasan through whom his descendants continued. pp. 52–61: the descendants of al-Husayn through ‘Ali, Muhammad, Ja‘far and Musa.
5. [F5]Islamweb Fatwa Centre, fatwa no. 337264, “al-A’immah al-Ithna ‘Ashar: manzilatuhum wa fadluhum ‘inda Ahl al-Sunnah”, 19 October 2016.Sunni cross-check for the family relationships and the stopping-point note.

Lineage of the Prophet ﷺ

1. [1]Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah 1/1–2; Ibn al-Jawzi, Talqih Fuhum Ahl al-Athar, pp. 5–6; al-Mansurpuri, Rahmatul-lil-‘Alamin 2/11–14, 52.Cited in Ar-Raheeq for Part 1. The same chain to ‘Adnan opens the chapter “Mab‘ath al-Nabi ﷺ” in Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab Manaqib al-Ansar, before hadith 3851.
2. [2]al-Mansurpuri, Rahmatul-lil-‘Alamin 2/14–17.Compiled from the reports of al-Kalbi and Ibn Sa‘d. Ar-Raheeq notes that the historical sources differ widely here; compare the much shorter chain in Ibn Hisham 1/1–2.
3. [3]Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah 1/2–4; Rahmatul-lil-‘Alamin 2/18; Khulasat al-Siyar, p. 6.Ibn Hisham’s list includes Ra‘u between Saru‘ and Falikh.
4. [Book]Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri, Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum, chapter “The lineage and family of the Prophet ﷺ”; Arabic edition (Beirut: Dar al-Hilal), p. 39.The three-part division and its assessments, and the Arabic spelling of every name in Parts 1–3.

How the names were checked: the Arabic spelling in Parts 1–3 follows the Arabic text of Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum. Part 1 matches the chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Ibn Hisham; Part 3 was compared with Ibn Hisham; the family tree was compared with Ibn Hazm’s Jamharat Ansab al-‘Arab and al-Dhahabi’s Siyar.