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Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai

Qusai ibn Kilab's son

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ12222944 ↗
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In Islam, Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai (Arabic: عبد العزى بن قصي) forms an important link between his father, Qusai ibn Kilab (c. 400–480), the great-great-grandfather of Shaiba ibn Hashim (Abd al-Mutallib) and his son Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza.

The name Abd al-Uzza derives from one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times, al-Uzza. The three were considered to be daughters of Allah and were very close in symbolism and appearance to Hindu and Buddhist goddesses.

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The public source identifies “Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai” as qusai ibn Kilab's son. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around al-Uzza, Qusai and Kilab's.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with al-Uzza, Qusai and Kilab's providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.