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Chronology of Makkah and the Hijaz before Mohammad chiefly 

 founded upon Genealogy, — By Dr. A. Sprenger, Secretary of 

 the Asiatic Society, 



The following genealogical tables intended to illustrate the chrono- 

 logy of the chiefs of the ZZijaz before Mohammad have been derived 

 from the following authorities. 



The genealogies of the Amelekites and Jorhomites have been taken 

 from the Kitab alaghany and Mas'udy the latter is also in Abii-lfeda, 

 but somewhat different and in Khoshaybary. The latter author differs 

 from both these authorities : according to his statement Lahy ^^ was 

 the leader of the Jorhomite colony which settled in the Hijaz, and he 

 was the sou of Obayy b. Jorhom II. b. al-Ghawth b. Shaddad b. Sa'd 

 b. Jorhom I. b. Qa^an. 



The genealogy of the mother of Qocayy which appears to me very 

 important and that of the Khoza'ahites from Abu Ghobshan up to 

 Lo/myy have been taken from Waqidy and the Tarykh Khamys. 



I calculated three generations to one hundred years. This is some- 

 what too high in ordinary cases but it was the only means to bring 

 the synchronisms into harmony. From Qocayy to Mohammad I 

 calculated the generations even higher than at thirty-three years each 

 for reasons stated in the table. Mohammad is five generations from 

 Qocayy but Suwaybit a contemporary of Mohammad and some others 

 were the seventh generation removed from him and /Zamzah who was 

 of the same age as Mohammad only four. 'Abd al-Mo^alib the grand- 

 father of Mohammad married at the age of upwards of seventy a young 

 woman and she gave birth to //amzah. This is therefore an excep- 

 tional case. Taking the average of all the genealogies of the descendants 

 of Qocayy, which we know, we find that six generations intervened 

 between Qocayy and Mohammad or about two hundred years. Accord- 

 ing to this calculation Qocayy was born about A. D. 370. 



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