Islamic Caliphate — Family Tree

Islamic Caliphate: an interactive, date-aligned family tree of 120 members (Rāshidūn → Umayyad → Abbasid) — dynasties, rulers, lineages, marriages and key events plotted on a chronological timeline.

• Muhammad — Prophet & Statesman (570–632)
• Khadīja bint Khuwaylid — Mother of the Believers (556–619)
• Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq — 1st Caliph (Rāshidūn) (572–634)
• ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb — 2nd Caliph (Rāshidūn) (583–644)
• ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān — 3rd Caliph (Rāshidūn) (576–656)
• ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib — 4th Caliph (Rāshidūn) (599–661)
• Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ — Daughter of the Prophet (614–632)
• Ruqayya bint Muhammad — Daughter of the Prophet (599–624)
• Umm Kulthūm bint Muhammad — Daughter of the Prophet (602–630)
• al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī — 5th Caliph; grandson of the Prophet (625–670)
• al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī — Grandson of the Prophet; martyr of Karbalāʾ (626–680)
• Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya — Son of ʿAlī (by a Ḥanafī mother) (637–700)
• al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī — Standard-bearer at Karbalāʾ (647–680)
• ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn — 4th Shīʿī Imam (659–713)
• Muḥammad al-Bāqir — 5th Shīʿī Imam (676–732)
• Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq — 6th Shīʿī Imam (702–765)
• Zayd ibn ʿAlī — Alid rebel; eponym of Zaydism (695–740)
• Yaḥyā ibn Zayd — Alid rebel in Khurāsān (717–743)
• al-Ḥasan al-Muthannā — Grandson of ʿAlī (660–715)
• ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥḍ — Ḥasanid claimant (692–762)
• Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya — Ḥasanid rebel against al-Manṣūr (700–762)
• Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh — Ḥasanid rebel in Basra (718–763)
• al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib — Uncle of the Prophet; Abbasid ancestor (568–653)
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās — Scholar; 'Father of the Caliphs' (619–688)
• ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh — Abbasid forefather (661–736)
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī — Organizer of the Abbasid daʿwa (677–743)
• Ibrāhīm al-Imām — Abbasid imam (700–749)
• Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ — 1st Abbasid Caliph (723–754)
• Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr — 2nd Abbasid Caliph; founder of Baghdad (714–775)
• al-Mahdī — 3rd Abbasid Caliph (744–785)
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī — Abbasid uncle & general (712–764)
• ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā — Abbasid heir-apparent & general (721–783)
• Abū Hāshim ʿAbd Allāh — Alid imam of the Hāshimiyya (660–716)
• Muslim ibn ʿAqīl — Envoy of al-Ḥusayn (620–680)
• ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr — Mother of the Believers (613–678)
• Ḥafṣa bint ʿUmar — Mother of the Believers (604–665)
• Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh — Shūrā member (594–656)
• al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām — Shūrā member; disciple of the Prophet (594–656)
• Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr — Companion; mother of Ibn al-Zubayr (595–692)
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr — Counter-Caliph (Mecca) (624–692)
• Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr — Zubayrid governor of Iraq (649–691)
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muljam — Assassin of ʿAlī (615–661)
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb al-Rāsibī — Leader of the Khārijites (610–658)
• Maysūn bint Baḥdal — Wife of Muʿāwiya; Banū Kalb (620–680)
• Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya — 2nd Umayyad Caliph (Yazīd I) (646–683)
• Muʿāwiya ibn Yazīd — 3rd Umayyad Caliph (Muʿāwiya II) (661–684)
• Khālid ibn Yazīd — Sufyanid prince & alchemist (668–704)
• Ziyād ibn Abīhi — Governor of Iraq (622–673)
• ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād — Governor of Kufa & Basra (654–686)
• Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam — 4th Umayyad Caliph (Marwān I) (623–685)
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān — Governor of Egypt (644–704)
• Muḥammad ibn Marwān — Governor of the Jazīra (660–720)
• ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān — 5th Umayyad Caliph (646–705)
• al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — 6th Umayyad Caliph (al-Walīd I) (670–715)
• Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — 7th Umayyad Caliph (675–717)
• ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz — 8th Umayyad Caliph; the just reformer (682–720)
• Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — 9th Umayyad Caliph (Yazīd II) (691–724)
• Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — 10th Umayyad Caliph (691–743)
• Maslama ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — Umayyad supreme commander (685–739)
• al-Walīd ibn Yazīd — 11th Umayyad Caliph (al-Walīd II) (709–744)

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