Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib


Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib was an ancestor of Islamic Prophet Muhammad of Arabia.
He is the son of Ghalib ibn Fihr who lived in Makkah.

History

The tradition states that Muhammad was the son of 'Abdullah, b. 'Abdu'I-Muttalib, b. Hashim, b. Abd Manaf, b. Qusay, b. Kilab, b.
Murrah, b. Ka'b, b. Lu'ayy, b. Ghalib, b. Fihr, b. Malik, b. al-Nadr, b.
Kinana, b. Khuzayma, b. Mudrika, b. Ilyas,
b. Mudar, b. Nizar, b. Ma'ad, b. Adnan, b. Udd,....b. Ya'rub, b. Yashjub, b. Qedar, b. Isma'il, b. Ibrahim, the friend of the Compassionate.

Ibn Ishaq's account

In Ibn Ishaq's Biography of the Prophet Muhammad he reports these stories:
"A soothsayer Shafi' b. Kulayb al-Sadafi had come to Yemen King Tubba'
and lived with him, and when he wished to bid him farewell Tubba' asked
him whether he had anything of importance to communicate, and in the
customary rhymes of saj' he told him in reply to the question whether any king would fight with Tubba', "No, but the king of Ghassan had a son whose kingdom would be surpassed by a man of great piety, helped by the Almighty, described in the Psalms ; his people would be favoured by revelation, he would dispel darkness by light, Ahmad the prophet. How blessed his people when he comes, one of the descendants of Lu'ayy from Banu Qusayy. Tubba' sent for a copy of the psalms, examined them, and found the description of the prophet."
Lu'ay's grandson Qusay who conquered Mecca for Quraish said a poem taking pride in his grandfather Lu'ay:

in Mecca is my house where I grew.