Editing Banu Hashim (section)

==History==
Traditionally, the tribe is named after [[Hashim ibn Abd Manaf]]. He was married to Salma bint Amr of the [[Banu Najjar]], an [[Azd]]i clan.<ref>al-Tabari, Abu Jafar. ''The History of al-Tabari Vol. 6: Muhammad at Mecca''. p. 125.</ref><ref>The Agrarian System of Islam
Muḥammad Taqī Amīnī
Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1991</ref>

Amongst pre-Islamic Arabs, people classified themselves according to their tribe, their clan, and then their house/family. There were two major tribal kinds: the [[Adnanites]] (descended from [[Adnan]], traditional ancestor of the Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia) and the [[Qahtanites]] (originating from [[Qahtan]], the traditional ancestor of the Arabs of southern and south eastern Arabia).<ref name=gen>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O69zjVnjL10C&pg=PA72 |title=Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis|author=Reuven Firestone|date=1990|page=72|isbn=9780791403310}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ibn García's Shuʻūbiyya Letter: Ethnic and Theological Tensions in Medieval al-Andalus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJ8EpN0232IC&pg=PA170 |author=Göran Larsson|date=2003|page=170|isbn = 9004127402}}</ref> Banu Hashim is one of the clans of the [[Quraysh tribe]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Mubarakpuri|first=Safi-ur-Rahman|title=The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum)|year=2002|publisher=Darussalam|page=30|isbn=1591440718}}</ref> and is an [[Adnanite]] tribe. It derives its name from [[Hashim ibn Abd Manaf]], the great-grandfather of [[Muhammad]], and along with the [[Banu Abd-Shams]], Banu Al-Muttalib, and [[Banu Nawfal]] clans comprises the [[Banu Abd al-Manaf]] section of the Quraysh.