Ayasrah (/æjɑːsrɑː/; Arabic: عياصره pronounced [ʕjaːsˤrh]), is the name of a prominent Jordanian family based in Sakib. They trace their lineage back to Banu Hashim, as Hashemite descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1]

Etymology edit

In the early 16th century, there were two contiguous villages named Sakib and Aysra (عيصره). The family took the name from Aysra, which is now the northern part of present-day Sakib. In 1538, the Ottoman census of the liwa (district) of Ajlun indicates that Sakib had a population of 13 households and 1 mosque's imam, while Aysra had a population of 7 households and 1 mosque's imam.[2]

Family tree edit

Wahdan Bek ibn Khalifa Bek ibn Sulaiman Bek ibn Uthman Bek ibn Sulaiman ibn Prince Salim ibn Prince Muhammad ibn Sadr al-Din Ali ibn Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ismael al-Saleh ibn al-Sultan Ali ibn Yahya ibn Thabit ibn Ali al-Hazim ibn Ahmed al-Murtada ibn Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Hashemi ibn Ali al-Mahdi ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Qasim ibn al-Husayn al-Radi ibn Ahmed al-Saleh ibn Musa Abi Sabha ibn Ibrahim al-Murtada ibn Musa ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn, grandson of Muhammad.

Wahdan Bek is the ancestor of the Ayasrah family, and he is the 31st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad.[1]

Hashim
Ancestor of the Hashemites
Abdul-Muttalib
AbdullahAbu Talib
MUHAMMADAli
Fatimah
Husayn
Ali
Muhammad
Ja'far
Musa
Ibrahim al-Murtada
Musa Abi Sabha
Ahmed al-Saleh
al-Husayn al-Radi
al-Hasan al-Qasim
Muhammad
Ali al-Mahdi
al-Hasan al-Hashemi
Ali
Ahmed al-Murtada
Ali al-Hazim
Thabit
Yahya
al-Sultan Ali
Ismael al-Saleh
Muhammad
Hasan
Sadr al-Din Ali
Prince Muhammad
Prince Salim
Sulaiman
Uthman Bek
Sulaiman Bek
Khalifa Bek
Wahdan Bek

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Sulṭān 2009, p. 409.
  2. ^ Bakhit & Hamud 1989, p. 83.

References edit

  • Bakhīt, M. A.; Ḥamūd, N. R. (1989). Daftar mufaṣṣal Liwāʼ ʻAjlūn : ṭābū daftarī raqm 970, Istānbūl = Kanunname-yi Liva-yı Aclun. (The Detailed Defter of the Liwāʼ of ʻAjlūn (Year 1538)). Amman: The University of Jordan. OCLC 28579987.
  • Sulṭān, Fatḥī ʻAbd al-Qādir (2009). Mawsūʻat ansāb Āl al-Bayt al-Nabawī. (Lineage encyclopedia of Prophet Muhammad's family, Ahl-al-bayt.). Vol. 3. Amman: al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-Mawsūʻāt. OCLC 542672418.