Banu Adi
Sub-tribe of the Quraysh tribe
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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.
Notable members
Clan members include:
- Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph.[1]
- Zayd ibn al-Khattab, (died 632) companion of Muḥammad and the brother of 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 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 Umar, one of the Tabi‘in.
- Salim ibn Abd-Allah (d. 728) was the Tabi‘un, scholar and hadith narrator. He was the grandson of Umar.
- Barrah bint Awf, maternal grandmother of Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza and great-great-grandmother of Muhammad
