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Quraysh

قريش
Definition

The Arab tribe descended from Isma'il and resident at Makkah. Custodians of the Ka'ba. The tribe into which the Prophet ﷺ was born — and from which most of the early opposition and the early support both came.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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