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2612. Muslim bin Haisam narrated from Ash'ath bin Qais who said: "I came to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ with a delegation from Kindah, and they thought that I was the best of them. I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, are you not from among us?' He said: 'We are the tribe of Banu Nadr bin Kinānah, and we do not attribute ourselves to our mother and we do not deny our forefathers.'"
He said: "Ash'ath bin Qais used to say: 'If any man is brought to me who suggests that a man from Quraish does not belong to Nadr bin Kinānah, I would carry out the legal punishment (for slander) on him.'"(Hasan)
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The tribe of the Noble Prophet ﷺ is the Quraish. Quraish was an appellation (title) of Fihr bin Mālik and only the bloodline of Fihr bin Mālik is called Quraishi. The name of the father of Mālik or grandfather of Fihr was Nadr bin Kinānah. (See Ar-Rahiq Al-Makhtum, p. 91)
When it is claimed that someone is not the son of the father who actually is his father, it means that his mother is slandered with the allegation of adultery. The slanderer should either prove it, or bear the punishment of eighty lashes.
