Banu Adi

Banu Adi (Arabic: بنو عدي) was a clan of the Quraysh tribe descended from Adi ibn Ka'b. The Banu Adi were with the Meccans as part of the escort that preceded the Battle of Badr; they did not join Quraysh further.

Banu Adi (Arabic: بنو عدي)
Quraysh, Adnanites
A genealogy of the Banu Adi tribe.
Nisba	Adawi
Location	Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Descended from	Adi ibn Ka'b
Religion	Islam

Notable members

Among the clan members can be found:

• Umar ibn al-Khattab^[1]
• Zayd ibn al-Khattab, (died 632) companion of Muḥammad and the brother of Caliph Umar.
• Sa'id bin Zayd, (died 671) companion of Muḥammad.
• Zayd ibn Amr: (died 605) was a monotheist who lived in Mecca before Islam and father of Sa'id bin Zayd.
• Khattab ibn Nufayl: father of Caliph Umar
• Fatimah bint al-Khattab
• Zayd ibn Umar: son of Caliph Umar
• Abdullah ibn Umar: son of Caliph Umar
• Hafsa bint Umar: wife of Muhammad
• Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah: the only literate female sahaba
• Asim ibn Umar: son of Caliph Umar, one of the Tabi‘in.
• Salim ibn Abd-Allah (d. 728) was the famous Tabi‘un, scholar and hadith narrator. He was the grandson of caliph Umar.
• Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Waqid al-Umari, the Governor of Yemen for the Abbasid Caliphate from 813 to mid-814 CE.
• Abu Turab al-Zahiri: born in India of Arab Indian descent^[2]

See also

• Family tree of Umar

References

1. History of the Caliphs by Suyuti [1]
2. Introduction of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Karīm to Abū Turāb al-Ẓāhirī, 1343-1423 H/1923-2002 M : ṣafaḥāt min ḥayātih-- wa-taʼammulāt fī adabih. Riyadh: Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Waṭanīyah, 2008.