Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Much importance was paid to the progeny of Nabī H in order to
preserve the noble lineage and repel the fraudsters who sought the
Khilāfah. 1
Therefore, the strongest argument which the Abbasids relied on in countering
the Ubaydīs was exposing the lie that they were from the children of Fāṭimah
J. The Abbasid Ruler al-Qādir al-ʿAbbāsī 2 wrote a treatise regarding the
Egyptian Rulers and criticised their lineage and beliefs. Copies of it were read
in Baghdād and letters were sought from the judges, rulers, and notables due to
1 Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʾ wa al-Fāṭimiyyūn p. 51. The following books have been authored regarding the
lineage of Nabī H:
a. Yaḥyā al-ʿAqīqī (d. 277 A.H.): Ansāb Ᾱl Abī Ṭālib. The first book written regarding the lineage
of the Ṭalibīs.
b. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606 A.H.): al-Shajarah al-Mubārakah fī Ansāb al-Ṭālibiyyah.
c. Ismāʿīl al-ʿAlawī (d. after 614 A.H.): Ghunyah al-Ṭālib fī Nasab Ᾱl Abī Ṭālib.
d. ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī (d. 709 A.H.): al-Majdī fī Ansāb al-Ṭālibiyyīn.
e. Al-Qalqashandī (d. 821 A.H.): ʿUmdat al-Ṭālib fī Ansāb Ᾱl Abī Ṭālib.
f. Baḥr al-Ansāb fī Nasab Banī Hāshim of the previous author.
g. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥasanī (d. 1099 A.H.): Taʾlīf fī Ansāb al-Ashrāf al-ladhīna lahum Shuhrah bi Faṣ.
h. Nashr al-ʿUlūm al-Dārisah bi Rasm Shajarāt al-Juṭiyyīn al-Adārisah of the previous author.
i. Al-Qādir al-Ḥasanī (d. 1133 A.H.): Nasab al-Shurafāʾ al-ʿAlamiyyīn.
j. ʿAlī al-Saqqāf (d. 1203 A.H.): al-Shajarah al-ʿAliyyah.
k. Al-Jifrī al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1222 A.H.): al-Kawkab al-Durrī fī Nasab al-Sādah Ᾱl al-Jifrī.
l. Idrīs al-ʿAlawī (d. 1316 A.H.: al-Durar al-Bahiyyah wa al-Jawāhir al-Nabawiyyah. A book
dedicated to the lineage to the Alawids of Morocco.
m. Ibn al-Mashhūr (d. 1320 A.H.): Shams al-Ẓahīrah fī Ansāb al-Sādah al-ʿAlawiyyah bi Ḥaḍramawt.
n. Al-ʿAlawī al-Saqqāf (d. 1335 A.H.): Ansāb Ahl al-Bayt.
o. Mahdī al-Mūsawī (d. 1343 A.H.) Ansāb al-Hāshimiyyīn.
p. Abd al-Razzāq al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1390 A.H.): ʿUqūd al-Tamāʾim fī Ansāb Banī Hāshim.
2 Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Muʿtaḍid al-Hāshimī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Qādir bī Allāh. An Abbasid
Ruler. He was elected as the ruler after the dismissal of al-Ṭāʾiʿ. He was a great ruler and was known
to be a follower of the Sunnah, an ascetic and a person who dispensed a lot of charity. He was known
to be the poorest of all rulers. He passed away in 422 A.H. at the age of 87 and he ruled for 41 years.
See: Tārīkh Baghdād 4/37; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 15/127; al-ʿIbar fi Khabar man Ghabar 3/149; Tārīkh al-
Khulafāʾ p. 411.
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