sirRat u nabi
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ﮭ ﯿ
ﯿ ﯿ
ﮏ ﮑ ﯿ
[We are of high family, bright faced or children of the famous elder Qa
da
'ah binM
a
lik bin
H
am
i
r. This is the Nasab/which is well known and not unknown.]
7
Ibn Is
ha
q stated that according to theclaim of the Ban
u
Ma`d scholars of theancestry the people who had survived outof Qanas Ibn Ma`d were all destroyedand among them was Nu`m
a
n IbnMunzar who was the Ruler of
Hi
rah.Ibn Is
ha
q stated: To me statedMuhammad bin Muslim bin `Abdull
a
h bin Shihab Zuhri that Nu`man binMunzar was from the progeny of Qana
s
bin Ma`d while some have stated Qana
s
.
7
Except manuscript (a) in other manuscripts there is another line and that is as under:
ﯽ
[in the engraved stone below the pulpit].Maulavi Qutbuddin A
h
mad Mahmud
i
. Former Lecturer, Cha'o Ghat College, Baldah, the Urdu Translator of Sirat Ibn Hashsham, Vol. I and II.



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Ibn Is
ha
q stated: To me stated Ya`q
u
b bin `Utbah bin Mugh
i
rah bin al-Akhnason the authority of an old man of thetribe of Ban
u
Zar
i
q that when the swordof Nu`man bin al-Munzar was brought before
H
a
d
rat
`Umar bin al-Khattab(
ﯽ ﷲ ﯽ
) he summoned Jubayr bin Mut`am ibn `Adi bin Naufal bin`abd Manaf bin Qasayy, and this Jubayr was from among the scholars of theQuraysh who knew the most about thenasab and he knew the nasab of theQabilah Quraysh and all the Arabs.Heused to say that he had got thisknowledge from
H
a
d
rat
Ab
u
Bakr Siddiq (
ﷲ ﯽﯽ
) who was the best informed of the nasab of all theArabs. Then
H
a
d
rat
`Umar (
ﷲ ﯽﯽ
) gave that sword to him andasked: O Jubayr!To which tribe Nu`man bin Munzar belonged? He replied that he

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was of those who had survived fromQana
s
bin Ma`d.Ibn Is
ha
q stated that generally all Arabsconsider that he was from Banu Lakhamwho was from the progeny of Rai`ah bin Nasr. Allah alone knows best which of these facts is correct.Ibn Is
ha
q stated that the chain of ancestors of Nu`man was: Lakham bin`Ad
i
bin `Amr bin Sab
a
. And some said:Rab
i
`ah bin Na
s
r Ibn Ab
i
Ha
rithah bin`Amr bin `
A
mir. It is stated that he hadremained behind in Yemen after the exitof `amr bin `Amir from Yemen