PEDIGREE OF HIS LORDSHIP THE PROPHET, BY WAY OF SYNOPSIS AND DISTINCTION. THE BLESSING OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM AND UPON HIS FAMILY!

His name is Muhammad, the son of A’bdullah, the son of A’bd-ul-Muttalleb, the son of Hâshem, the son of A’bd Munâf, the son of Qussai, the son of Kallâb, the son of Laovi, the son of Ghâleb, the son of Qahar, the son of Mâlak, the son of Nasser, the son of Kanatah, the son of Madrekah, the son of Alyâs, the son of Nasser, the son of A’dnân.

The genealogy of his exalted lordship the prince of existences—upon whom be the most excellent of blessings —is regular as far as A’dnân, but above the latter there are discrepancies. Nevertheless, all historians agree, despite a multitude of contradictions, in placing six of the inspired prophets—i.e., Esma’il [Ishmael], Ebrâhim [Abraham], Hûd [Heber], Nûh [Noah], Edris [Enoch], and Sheth [Seth]—into the pedigree of the ancestors of his lordship, the seal of the prophets, as far back as Adam, the father of mankind. The biographies of each of these, and of all the other prophets, have, according to their requirements, been given in the first volume, and now the musk-writing reed will, from a feeling of veneration, by way of abridgment, record the lives of some of the just-enumerated ancestors of his lordship. From Him comes protection and guidance!