The family tree of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ
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His family tree from Ādam and the prophet Ibrāhīm to his grandchildren, as recorded by the Sunni genealogists. Select any name to read who they were, whom they married and who their children were.
About this tree
What is certain
The line from the Prophet ﷺ up to ʿAdnān is agreed upon by the genealogists and recorded by al-Bukhārī. That ʿAdnān descends from Ismāʿīl son of Ibrāhīm is also agreed upon. The names in between are not: the lists differ in length and spelling, so every one of them is marked as uncertain. Above Ibrāhīm the line goes back to Ādam; the prophets in it are certain, but the names between them and their order come from the genealogists, who took them from the People of the Book. Disputed details inside an established entry say so in its notes.
Faith
The tree follows the Sunni view. The Prophet ﷺ said that Allah chose his line, from the children of Ismāʿīl through Kināna, Quraysh and Banū Hāshim to him (Muslim 2276), and it is reported that he said Allah brought him out of marriage, never of fornication (ʿAbd al-Razzāq and al-Bayhaqī from Muḥammad al-Bāqir, al-Ṭabarānī from ʿAlī): his lineage is pure. That is a statement about his lineage, not a ruling on the faith of each forefather. The prophets in the line are marked as Muslims, and so are the generations between Ādam and Nūḥ, who, Ibn ʿAbbās said, were all upon a law of the truth. Among the Arabs, ʿAmr ibn Luḥayy was the first to change the religion of Ibrāhīm and Ismāʿīl and set up idols (Ibn Isḥāq; al-Bukhārī 3521). The forefathers who died before the mission carry no ruling, and for his parents, on whom the scholars differ, the panels give the views. His children who died young are counted as Muslims. For relatives who lived during his mission the tree follows the Sunni sources; where those sources differ, it says so.
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Sources
Ibn Hishām's al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya, Ibn Saʿd's al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, al-Ṭabarī's Tārīkh, Ibn Ḥazm's Jamharat Ansāb al-ʿArab, Ibn Kathīr's al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya, Ibn Ḥajar's al-Iṣāba and the hadith collections. Each person's panel lists the sources used for that entry.