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  2. Family tree of Muhammad - Wikipedia

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    According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad descended from Adnan. [7] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad. [4]

  3. Succession to Muhammad - Wikipedia

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    Sunni Islam asserts that Abu Bakr rightfully succeeded Muhammad through a process of election. In contrast, Shia Islam maintains that Ali ibn Abi Talib was Muhammad's designated successor. These differing viewpoints on succession stem from varying interpretations of early Islamic history and the hadiths, which are the recorded sayings of ...

  4. Islamic view of death - Wikipedia

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    Others regard Barzakh as a world dividing and simultaneously connecting the realm of the dead and the living. [27] Therefore, some Muslim traditions argue about possibilities to contact the dead by sleeping on graveyards. [28] Visiting graves of holy persons or prophets is also a common practise among Muslims, known as Ziyarat.

  5. Ibadi Islam - Wikipedia

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    The Ibadi movement or Ibadism (Arabic: الإباضية, romanized: al-ʾIbāḍiyya, Arabic pronunciation: [alʔibaːˈdˤijja]) is a branch inside Islam, which many believe is descended from the Kharijites. [3]

  6. Fatima - Wikipedia

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    Shia Islam limits the Ahl al-Bayt to the Ahl al-Kisa, namely, Muhammad, Fatima, Ali, Hasan and Husayn. [206] [207] There are various views in Sunni Islam, though a typical compromise is to include also Muhammad's wives in the Ahl al-Bayt. [208] The verse of purification is regarded in Shia Islam as evidence of the infallibility of the Ahl al ...

  7. Twelve Imams - Wikipedia

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    According to Twelvers, there is at all times an Imam of the era who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law in the Muslim community. Ali , a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was the first of the Twelve Imams, and, in the Twelvers view, the rightful successor to Muhammad , followed by male descendants of Muhammad ...

  8. Sayyid - Wikipedia

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    In her book Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-Century Muslim India, Dr. Annemarie Schimmel writes: Khwaja Mir Dard 's family, like many nobles, from Bukhara; led their pedigree back to Baha'uddin Naqshband, after whom the Naqshbandi order is named, and who was a descendant, in the 11th generation of the 11th Shia ...

  9. Druze - Wikipedia

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    Since Druze emerged from Islam and share certain beliefs with Islam, its position of whether it is a separate religion or a sect of Islam is sometimes controversial among Muslim scholars. [290] Druze are not considered Muslims by those belonging to orthodox Islamic schools of thought.