Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2

PART II.

AL-MADINAH. (Continued.)

[p.1] A PILGRIMAGE

TO

AL-MADINAH AND MECCAH.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE PEOPLE OF AL-MADINAH.

AL-MADINAH contains but few families descended from the Prophet’s Auxiliaries. I heard only of four whose genealogy is undoubted. These were,—

1. The Bayt al-Ansari, or descendants of Abu Ayyub, a most noble race whose t...