Banu Adi ibn Ka'b

بنو عدي بن كعب

A clan of Quraysh; Ibn Ishaq lists it in the Abyssinia rolls as 'Adi ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy', counting emigrants, women and children born there.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Summary

Ibn Ishaq presents this clan in the lists of the emigrants to Abyssinia under its lineage, "Adi ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy" 1 2.

Members of this clan in the chapter on the emigrants to Abyssinia

Those carried in the two ships:

Among the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia:

Women emigrants to Abyssinia:

On the alliances and the Alliance of al-Fudul (The Sealed Nectar, p.60)

The Sealed Nectar counts this clan among the "alliances" against whom the wronged al-Zubaydi appealed when al-As ibn Wa'il withheld his right. They were Abd al-Dar, Makhzum, Jumah, Sahm and Adi, and they paid him no heed. That was the cause of the Alliance of al-Fudul, which Banu Hashim, Banu al-Muttalib, Asad, Zuhra and Taym formed 4 5.

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Adi ibn Nadla· Al-Nu'man ibn Adi· Layla bint Abi Hathma· Ma'mar ibn Abdullah ibn Nadla· Nu'aym ibn Abdullah (al-Nahham)· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Urwa ibn Abd al-Uzza· Waqid ibn Abdullah al-Yarbu'i· Zayd ibn Amr
Member of
Quraysh

People and things also explored

Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· Aksum· Quraysh· The Battle of Badr· The Battle of Uhud· The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· Expedition of Nakhla· Umar accepts Islam

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/5
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/9
  3. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/11
  4. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.60
  5. Mukhtasar Sirat al-Rasul — al-Najdi , p.30-31
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Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib

After Hudaybiyya, the Prophet sent Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to the Negus, who transported the remaining Muslim emigrants in two ships to the Prophet at Khaybar after the conquest. The Prophet received Ja'far with a kiss between the eyes, saying 'I do not know which gives me greater joy — the opening of Khaybar or the arrival of Ja'far.' Sixteen men came on the two ships; thirty-four others came later or died in Abyssinia; sixteen women emigrated in all, counting those who came back and those who died there, apart from daughters born there.