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3 unusual facts about Banu Hashim


Al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadi

He believes that al-Kumayt wanted the caliphate to be given to the Banu Hashim, but not necessarily the family of the Prophet.

An article by W. F. Madelung suggests that al-Kumayt was not praising the family of the Prophet specifically, but rather the Banu Hashim as a whole.

Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam

Their speaker became Muhammad, who himself hailed from one of the less privileged Quraysh clans.


Battle of Zhu Qissa

In July 632, Abu Bakr raised an army mainly from the Banu Hashim (the clan of the prophet Muhammad).


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