RASHIDUN CALIPHATE
GENEALOGY
(`Uthmān ibn `Affān)
Lu`ayy ibn Ghālib al-Qurashī
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Ka'b ibn Lu`ayy al-Qurashī
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Murrah ibn Ka'b al-Qurashī
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Kilab ibn Murrah al-Qurashī
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Qusayy ibn Kilab al-Qurashī
Sharif of Mecca, died 480s.
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`Abd Manāf ibn Qusayy al-Qurashī
Ancestor of the Prophet Muḥammad (PUH)
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`Abd Shams ibn `Abd Manāf `Abd Manāfi
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Umayyah ibn `Abd Shams `Abd Shamsi
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Abūl-`Ās ibn Umayyah al-Umawī
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`Affān ibn Abīl-`Ās al-Umawī
m. Arwā bint Kurayz `Abd Shamsī, daughter of his second cousin
They had issue, including:
1) Abū `Abdillāh Abū `Amr `Uthmān Thun-Nurayn ibn `Affān al-Umawī - see below
1) Asmā` bint `Affān al-Umawī, who married Abū `Amr `Abd ur-Raḥmān ibn Awf az-Zuhrahī, an Islamic warrior and companion of the Prophet, who led the Hajj (pilgrimage) in 634, was a member of the council which chose the Third Rashidun Caliph and died in 652.
644 - 656 Abū `Abdillāh Abū `Amr `Uthmān Thun-Nurayn ibn `Affān al-Umawī, Commander of the Faithful and Third Rashidun Caliph. Born 574 at Ta'if, Hejaz into the Umayyad family, which dominated Mecca in the years before Islam and was extremely hostile to the Prophet. `Uthmān was nevertheless an early convert to Islam and a close companion of the Prophet, serving as his Secretary for religious matters. He was Secretary to the First Rashidun Caliph (632-644), briefly Governor of Medina (633), Deputy to the Second Rashidun Caliph (634-644) and a member of the council which chose himself as the Third Rashidun Caliph. During his reign he solidified the system established by his predeccessor and ordered the codification of the Qur'an. He led the Hajj every year between 645 and 655. In the latter part of his reign he grew increasingly unpopular and a rebellion in Egypt marched on Medina, beseiged `Uthmān's house and killed him in 656. This sparked the First Fitna or civil war in Islam. He married (first) Ruqayyah bint Muḥammad al-Hashemī, daughter of the Prophet and his first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid al-Asadī, who had divorced `Utbah ibn Abī Lahab al-Hashemi, a first cousin of the Prophet and opponent of Islam, she died in 624. He married (second) Umm Kulthūm bint Muḥammad al-Hashemī, a full sister of the previous, who had divorced `Utaybah ibn Abī Lahab al-Hashemi, a first cousin of the Prophet and opponent of Islam. He married (third) Fākhitah bint Ghazwān. He married (fourth) Umm `Amr bint Jandab al-Azdī. He married (fifth) Fātimah bint al-Walīd al-Makhzūmī. He married (sixth) Umm Banīn bint 'Uyaynah al-Fazārī. He married (seventh) Ramlah bint Shaybah `Abd Shamsī, his third cousin. He married (eighth) Nā'ilah bint al-Farāfisah al-Kalbī. He had issue, including:
1) `Amr ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Umm `Amr). He had issue, including:
a) `Abdullāh ibn `Amr al-Umawī. He married Fātimah as-Sughrah bint Husayn al-Hashemī, daughter of the Third Shi`a Imam, who also married Hasan ibn Hasan al-Hashemī, son of the Fifth Rashidun Caliph and died in 728 (See below). He had issue, including:
i) Abd ul-`Azīz ibn `Abdillāh al-Umawī. Governor of Medina (744-745).
ii) Muḥammad ad-Dībāj ibn `Abdillāh al-Umawī. He had issue, including:
a) Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Umawī.
a) Ruqayyah bint Muḥammad al-Umawī. She married Ibrāhīm ibn `Abdallāh al-Hashemī, who claimed the Caliphate and was killed in 762. She had issue - see below.
i) Ruqayyah bint `Abdillāh al-Umawī. She married Muḥammad al-Mahdi ibn al-Mansūr 'Abbāsi, Third `Abbasid Caliph, without issue.
a) Umm Ayyūb ibn `Amr al-Umawī. She married Abūl-Walīd Abd ul-Malik ibn Marwān al-'Umawī, Fifth Umayyad Caliph and had issue - see Umayyad.
2) Khālid ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Umm `Amr).
3) Abān ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Umm `Amr). Governor of Medina (694-701), He led the Hajj every year between 695 and 699 and in 701.
4) `Umar ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Umm `Amr).
5) Al-Walīd ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Fātimah).
6) Sa`īd ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Fātimah). Governor of Khorasan (676-679).
7) `Utbah ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Umm Banīn).
8) `Anbasah ibn `Uthmān al-Umawī (son of Nā'ilah).
1) Maryam bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Umm `Amr).
2) Umm Sa`īd bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Fātimah).
3) `Ā'ishah bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Ramlah).
4) Umm Abān bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Ramlah).
5) Umm `Amr bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Ramlah).
6) Maryam bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Nā'ilah).
7) Umm ul-Banīn bint `Uthmān al-Umawī (daughter of Nā'ilah). She married `Abdullāh ibn Yazīd al-'Umawī, without issue.