Ilyas ibn Mudar

Ilyas ibn Mudar ibn Nizar. The tribes of Mudar divided into two great branches: Qays Aylan ibn Mudar, and the clans of Ilyas ibn Mudar. ^{2 3}

From Ilyas ibn Mudar descend Tamim ibn Murra, Hudhayl ibn Mudrika, Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma, and the clans of Kinana ibn Khuzayma; from Kinana come Quraysh, the sons of Fihr ibn Malik. ² From the clans of Ilyas also come the Banu al-Ghawth ibn Murra, who were called Sufa, and to whom the authority to send the people out from Mina was given. ^{4 5}