• Descendants of Qidar, the son of Ishmael, lived long in Makkah incrementing in number, of them issued ‘Adnan and son Ma‘ad, to whom ‘Adnanian Arabs traced back their ancestry. ‘Adnan is the twenty-first grandfather in the series of the Prophetic ancestry. It was verbally expressed that whenever Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] verbalized of his ancestry he would stop at ‘Adnan and verbalize: "Genealogists tell lies" and did not go farther than him. A group of philomaths, however, favored the probability of transcending ‘Adnan affixing no consequentiality to the aforementioned Prophetic Hadith. They went on to verbalize that there were precisely forty fathers between ‘Adnan and Abraham [AWS]. [Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen 2/7-17]
• Nizar, Ma‘ad’s only son, had four sons who branched out into four great tribes; Eyad, Anmar, Rabi‘a and Mudar. These last two sub-branched into several septs. Rabi‘a fathered Asad, ‘Anazah, ‘Abdul Qais, and Wa’il’s two sons (Bakr and Taghlib), Hanifa and many others.
• Mudar tribes branched out into two great divisions: Qais ‘Ailan bin Mudar and septs of Elias bin Mudar. Of Qais ‘Ailan were the Banu Saleem, Banu Hawazin, and Banu Ghatafan of whom descended ‘Abs, Zubyan, Ashja‘ and Ghani bin A‘sur. Of Elias bin Mudar were Tamim bin Murra, Hudhail bin Mudrika, Banu Asad bin Khuzaimah and septs of Kinana bin Khuzaimah, of whom came Quraish, the progenies of Fahr bin Malik bin An-Nadr bin Kinana.
• Quraish branched out into sundry tribes, the most famous of whom were Jumah, Sahm, ‘Adi, Makhzum, Tayim, Zahra and the three septs of Qusai bin Kilab: ‘AbdudDar bin Qusai, Asad bin ‘Abdul ‘Uzza bin Qusai and ‘Abd Manaf bin Qusai.
• ‘Abd Manaf branched out into four tribes: ‘Abd Shams, Nawfal, Muttalib and Hashim. It is, however, from the family of Hashim that Allah culled Prophet Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib bin Hashim [pbuh].
• Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] verbalized:
• "Allah culled Ishmael from the sons of Abraham, Kinana from the sons of Ishmael, Quraish from the sons of Kinana, Hashim from the sons of Quraish and He culled me from the sons of Hashim." [Muslim 2/245; Tirmidhi 2/201].
Al-‘Abbas bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib quoted the Herald of All? [Pbuh] as saying:
• "Allah engendered mankind and culled me from the best whereof, He culled the tribes and culled me from the best whereof; and He culled families and culled me from the best whereof. I am the very best in person and family." [Tirmidhi 2/201]
• Having incremented in number, children of ‘Adnan, in pursuit of pastures and dihydrogen monoxide, spread out over sundry components of Arabia.
• The tribe of ‘Abdul Qais, together with some septs of Bakr bin Wa’il and Tamim, immigrated to Bahrain where they dwelt.
• Banu Hanifa bin Sa‘b bin Ali bin Bakr went to settle in Hijr, the capital of Yamama. All the tribes of Bakr bin Wa’il lived in an area of land which included Yamama, Bahrain, Saif Kazima, the sea shore, the outer borders of Iraq, Ablah and Hait.
• Most of the tribe of Taghlib lived in the Euphrates area while some of them lived with Bakr.
• Banu Tamim lived in Basra semi-desert.
• Banu Saleem lived in the vicinity of Madinah on the land stretching from Wadi AlQura to Khaibar onwards to the eastern mountains to Harrah.
• Thaqif dwelt in Ta’if and Hawazin east of Makkah near Autas on the road from Makkah to Basra.
• Banu Asad lived on the land east of Taimah; and west of Kufa, while family of Tai’ lived between Banu Asad and Taimah146; they were five-day-walk far from Kufa.
• Zubyan inhabited the plot of land between Taimah; and Hawran.
Some septs of Kinana lived in Tihama, while septs of Quraish dwelt in Makkah and its suburbs. Quraish remained thoroughly disunited until Qusai bin Kilab managed to rally their ranks on honourable terms annexing major prominence to their status and paramountcy. [Muhadrat Tareekh Al-Umam Al-Islamiyah 1/15-16].