These records are traditional material, not evidence-backed genealogy in the modern sense, and Shajrah labels them that way throughout. They are included as reference — the shared frame most Muslim family histories orient themselves against — not as claims meeting the evidentiary standard the rest of the registry applies.
Twenty-five prophets are named explicitly in the Qur’an. Islamic tradition holds that far more were sent — a frequently cited report puts the number in the thousands — but the named twenty-five are the ones the text identifies, and they are what this page records.
What the page does not do is join them into a single unbroken chain. That is the most common thing published prophetic genealogies get wrong, and it is worth explaining why.
What the sources actually attest
The Qur’an is not a genealogical document. It names prophets, and in a number of places it states a direct relationship between two of them — but it does not set out a continuous descent from Adam to Muhammad ﷺ, and neither does any source that could be called contemporary.
The links below are the ones explicitly attested in the Qur’an or in the early biographical and historical literature — Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah and al-Tabari’s Tarikh. They are the complete set this registry records:
| Parent | Child |
|---|---|
| Ibrahim | Ismail |
| Ibrahim | Ishaq |
| Ishaq | Yaqub |
| Yaqub | Yusuf |
| Dawud | Sulayman |
| Zakariyya | Yahya |
| Maryam | Isa |
| Sarah | Ishaq |
| Hajar | Ismail |
| Abdullah | Muhammad ﷺ |
| Aminah | Muhammad ﷺ |
11 parent–child links across 25 prophets and 5 supporting figures. Musa and Harun are attested as brothers; Ismail and Ishaq likewise; Lut is recorded as Ibrahim’s kinsman, and Yahya and Isa as relatives through their mothers.
The one continuous line
The Ibrahimic descent is the best-attested chain in the corpus, and it is the one that matters most for Muslim genealogy, because it is where the lineages of ordinary families eventually claim to attach:
- 1Ibrahimإبراهيم الخليل(Abraham)
- 2Ishaqإسحاق (عليه السلام)(Isaac)
- 3Yaqubيعقوب (إسرائيل)(Jacob / Israel)
- 4Yusufيوسف (عليه السلام)(Joseph)
Ibrahim’s other son Ismail settled at Mecca, and it is through his line that Arab genealogies — including that of the Prophet ﷺ — are traditionally traced. The generations between Ismail and Adnan, and between Adnan and Muhammad ﷺ, are recorded in the genealogical literature rather than in scripture, and the early authorities themselves differed over them.
The twenty-five named prophets
In the order the registry records them. Dates are traditional and approximate — they are ordering hints, not historical claims, and several figures have no recorded date at all. Supporting figures are not prophets, but are recorded because they carry the genealogical links between those who are.