Nasab Adnan wa Qahtan
- Author died
- 285 AH
- Editions
- Lajnat al-Ta'lif wa-al-Tarjamah wa-al-Nashr
Nasab Adnan wa Qahtan (The Genealogy of Adnan and Qahtan) is a concise genealogical treatise on Arab tribal lineages composed by the Basran philologist and grammarian Abu al-Abbas al-Mubarrad (d. 285 AH / 898 CE) .
Subject and Scope
The treatise surveys the genealogical trees of the two major ancestral divisions of the Arabs: the northern tribes tracing their lineage to Adnan and the southern tribes tracing theirs to Qahtan . In the biographical and bibliographical literature, the work is commonly cited under the title Nasab Adnan wa Qahtan , while Ibn al-Nadim listed it as Kitab Qahtan wa Adnan .
Transmission
The surviving transmission of the work is preserved through a scholarly chain (isnad) stemming directly from the author:
- Transmitted from al-Mubarrad by the grammarian Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Sarraj .
- From Ibn al-Sarraj by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Isa al-Rummani .
- From al-Rummani by Abu al-Husayn Hilal ibn al-Muhassin ibn Ibrahim .
- From Hilal by Abu al-Husayn al-Mubarak ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad al-Sayrafi .
- From al-Sayrafi through a recorded audition certificate (sama') granted to the philologist Mawhub ibn Ahmad al-Jawaliqi .
Publication
The text was edited, vocalized, and collated against three manuscripts and poetic divans by the Indian scholar Abd al-Aziz al-Maymani al-Rajkoti . It was published in Cairo by Lajnat al-Ta'lif wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr in 1354 AH (1936 CE) across 24 pages . It was also published in 1400 AH within the collection al-Rasa'il al-Kamaliyyah fi al-Ansab .
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