the  message, divorced his wife and got married to the daughter of Mudad bin ‘Amr, chief of the tribe of
Jurhum.
Once more, Abraham came to see his son, but again didn’t find him at home. He asked his new wife  the  same previous question, to which she thanked Allâh. Abraham asked her to tell Ishmael to keep his  doorstep (i.e. to keep her as wife) and went back to Palestine.
A third time, Abraham came to Makkah to find Ishmael sharpening an arrow under a lofty tree near
Zamzam. The meeting, after a very long journey of separation, was very touching for a father so  affectionate and a so dutiful and righteous son. This time, father and son built Al-Ka‘bah and raised its  pillars, and Abraham, in compliance with Allâh’s Commandment, called unto people to make  pilgrimage  to it.
By the grace of Allâh, Ishmael had twelve sons from the daughter of Mudad, whose names were
Nabet,
Qidar, Edbael, Mebsham, Mishma’, Duma, Micha, Hudud, Yetma, Yetour, Nafis and Qidman, and who  ultimately formed twelve tribes inhabiting Makkah and trading between Yemen, geographical Syria  and
Egypt. Later on, these tribes spread all over, and even outside, the peninsula. All their tidings went  into  oblivion except for the descendants of Nabet and Qidar.
The Nabeteans – sons of Nabet – established a flourishing civilization in the north of Hijaz, they  instituted a powerful government which spread out its domain over all neighbouring tribes, and made
Petra their capital. Nobody dared challenge their authority until the Romans came and managed to  eliminate their kingdom. After extensive research and painstaking investigation, Mr. Sulaiman
An-Nadwi  came to the conclusion that the Ghassanide kings, along with the Aws and Khazraj were not likely to  be
Qahtanians but rather Nabeteans.
Descendants of Qidar, the son of Ishmael, lived long in Makkah increasing in number, of them issued
‘Adnan and son Ma‘ad, to whom ‘Adnanian Arabs traced back their ancestry. ‘Adnan is the twenty-first  grandfather in the series of the Prophetic ancestry. It was said that whenever Prophet Muhammad ﻰﻠﺻ
    ﻠﻋ ﷲspoke of his ancestry he would stop at ‘Adnan and say: “Genealogists tell lies” and did not go  farther than him. A group of scholars, however, favoured the probability of going beyond ‘Adnan  attaching no significance to the aforementioned Prophetic Hadith. They went on to say that there were  exactly forty fathers between ‘Adnan and Abraham (Peace be upon them).
Nizar, Ma‘ad’s only son , had four sons who branched out into four great tribes; Eyad, Anmar, Rabi‘a  and Mudar. These last two sub-branched into several septs. Rabi‘a fathered Asad, ‘Anazah, ‘Abdul
Qais,  and Wa’il’s two sons (Bakr and Taghlib), Hanifa and many others.
Mudar tribes branched out into two great divisions: Qais ‘Ailan bin Mudar and septs of Elias bin Mudar.
Of Qais ‘Ailan were the Banu Saleem, Banu Hawazin, and Banu Ghatafan of whom descended ‘Abs,
Zubyan, Ashja‘ and Ghani bin A‘sur. Of Elias bin Mudar were Tamim bin Murra, Hudhail bin Mudrika,
Banu Asad bin Khuzaimah and septs of Kinana bin Khuzaimah, of whom came Quraish, the  descendants  of Fahr bin Malik bin An-Nadr bin Kinana.
Quraish branched out into various tribes, the most famous of whom were Jumah, Sahm, ‘Adi,
Makhzum, Tayim, Zahra and the three septs of Qusai bin Kilab: ‘Abdud-Dar bin Qusai, Asad bin ‘Abdul
‘Uzza bin Qusai and ‘Abd Manaf bin Qusai.
‘Abd Manaf branched out into four tribes: ‘Abd Shams, Nawfal, Muttalib and Hashim. It is, however,  from the family of Hashim that Allâh selected Prophet Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib bin
Hashim (Peace be upon him).
Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said:
“Allâh selected Ishmael from the sons of Abraham, Kinana from the sons of Ishmael, Quraish  from the sons of Kinana, Hashim from the sons of Quraish and He selected me from the sons of
Hashim.”
Al-‘Abbas bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib quoted the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) as saying:
“Allâh created mankind and chose me from the best whereof, He chose the tribes and selected  me from the best whereof; and He chose families and selected me from the best whereof. I am