Rashidun 4

RASHIDUN CALIPHATE

GENEALOGY

(`Alī ibn Abī Tālib)

 

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

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`Amr Hāshim ibn `Abd Manāf `Abd Manāfī

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Shayba `Abd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim al-Hāshemī

Grandfather of the Prophet Muḥammad (PUH)

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Abū Tālib `Imrān ibn `Abd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshemī

m. Fātimah bint Asad al-Hāshemī, his first cousin

They had issue, including:

 656-661 `Alī ibn Abī Tālib al-Hāshemī, First Shi`a Imam, Commander of the Faithful and Fourth Rashidun Caliph. Born in at Mecca around 600, he was raised in the household of his uncle, the Prophet. He was the first male to convert to Islam and one of the closest companions of the Prophet. Following the Prophet's death, he was passed over for leadership of the community and he instead spent most of his time farming. He was briefly Governor of Medina in 635 and may have been Chief Judge for the Second Rashidun Caliph from 635 to 644. He was a member of the council which chose the Third Rashidun Caliph in 644, who was killed by rebels in 656. `Ali was selected as the new Caliph, but his decision not to punish the rebels who had killed his predeccessor led to the First Fitna, a civil war against Mu`āwiyah, the Governor of Syria and a cousin of the Third. The two sides met at the Battle of Ṣiffin, but there was no clear result. `Ali chose to negotiate, outraging many of his supporters, who abandoned him, calling themselves the Kharijites. The war did not go in his favour and he was assassinated by a Kharijite while praying at the Great Mosque in Kufa in 661. He was a Narrator of Hadith, an Islamic scholar, a poet and is claimed as founder by most schools of Sufi mysticism. He married (first) Fātimah az-Zahra bint Muḥammad al-Hashemī, daughter of the Prophet and his first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid al-Asadī; all descendants of the Prophet are from this union. He married (second) Umm ul-Banīn Fātimah bint Hizām al-Kilābī, a seventh generation descendant of Kilab ibn Murrah al-Qurayshī. He married (third) Laylā bint Mas`ūd. He married (fourth) Mahyāt bint Imru` al-Qays al-Kalbī. He married (fifth) Asmā` bint Umays al-Khath`amī, sister-in-law to the Prophet who also married his older brother, Ja`far ibn Abī Tālib al-Hāshemī, and the First Rashidun Caliph. He married (sixth) Umm Habīb as-Sabhā bint Rabī`ah at-Taghlibī, an extremely distant cousin. He married (seventh) Umāmah bint Abīl-`Āsī al-`Abd Shamsī, born 630 as the daughter of Abūl-`Āsī ibn ar-Radī al-`Abd Shamsī initially an opponent of Islam, who converted a little before the Conquest of Mecca, and Zaynab bint Muḥammad al-Hashemī daughter of the Prophet and his first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid al-Asadī she died at Karbala in 680. He married (eighth) Khawlāh bint Ja`far al-Hanīfahī, an extremely distant cousin. He married (ninth) Umm Sa`īd bint Urwah ath-Thaqafī. He had issue, including:

 661 Al-Ḥasan ibn `Alī al-Hāshemī, Second Shi`a Imam, Commander of the Faithful and Fifth Rashidun Caliph. He briefly claimed the Caliphate after his father's death, but relinquished it to the First Umayyad Caliph. He spent the rest of his life in Medina and died there in 669. He had issue, including:

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