(RAHNUMA) Bani Hashem, the clan of the Prophet Muhammad, hold a unique place in sacred history because their lineage brings together two great lineages.
On the paternal side, Bani Hashem are Ismailite, descending from Prophet Ibrahim through Ismail and the line of Adnan to Hashem ibn Abd Manaf.
On the maternal side, Bani Hashem are linked to the House of David through Hashem’s marriage to Salma bint Amr of the Bani Najjar. The Bani Najjar were a clan of the Bani Khazraj whose descent is traced the House of David. Article 31 of the Constitution of Medina refers to the Bani Najjar as a Judean peoples, stating that “the Judeans of Banu Najjar shall enjoy the same rights as the Judeans of Banu Awf.”
The English website of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah also includes the text of the treaty made between the Prophet Muhammad and the Judeans of Medina and refers to the Bani Najjar as Judean peoples.
According to this lineage, Salma bint Amr, the matriarch of Bani Hashem, was of Judean descent, linking her descendants from Hashem to the House of David.
Hashem passed through Gaza on his summer trade journey to the Levant, where he later died and was buried inside what is now the Sayed al-Hashem Mosque.
