He married her to his nephew Esau, son of Isaac son of Abraham, and through her Esau fathered the Romans and the Greeks (1)—and, according to one report, the Ashbān as well.

All the Arabs of the Ḥijaz, in all their various clans, trace their lineage back to his two sons, Nābit and Qaydar.

After Ishmael, the man who held the chief authority—governing Mecca and overseeing the Sacred House and Zamzam—was Nābit b. Ishmael, the Jurhumites’ sister’s son. Jurhum then seized control of the House, coveting what belonged to their sister’s children, and ruled Mecca and its environs in place of the descendants of Ishmael for a long period. The first to whom authority over the House passed after Nābit was Muḍāḍ b. ʿAmr b. Saʿd b. al-Raqīb b. Hī b. Nabat b. Jurhum. Jurhum was the son of Qaḥṭān—though some say: Jurhum b. Yaqṭan b. ʿĀbir b. Shālakh b. Arfakhshadh b. Shem b. Noah—the Jurhumite.

Muḍāḍ resided in upper Mecca at Quʿayqiʿān, while al-Samaydiʿ, the chief of Qaṭūrāʾ, settled with his people in the lower part of Mecca; each of them imposed a tithe on everyone who passed through on the way to the city. War then broke out between Jurhum and Qaṭūrāʾ: they fought, al-Samaydiʿ was killed, and Muḍāḍ’s authority became firmly established. He ruled Mecca and the Sacred House without challenge from the children of Ishmael, despite their numbers, nobility, and spread in Mecca and beyond—both because he was their maternal uncle and out of reverence for the Sacred House. The kingship then passed to his son al-Ḥārith, and after him to ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith.

Later, Jurhum committed tyranny in Mecca, spread corruption, and even violated the sanctity of the Sacred Mosque. It is said that a man among them called Isāf b. Baghy and a woman named Nāʾilah bt. Wāʾil met inside the Kaʿbah and committed an obscene act; Allah turned them into two stones. The people set those stones up near the House as a warning, but after a long lapse of time they were worshipped beside Allah during the era of Khuzaʿah, as will be explained in its proper place. The two stones thus stood as idols known as Isāf and Nāʾilah.

When Jurhum increased their oppression in the Sacred Land, Khuzaʿah—who had settled around the Sanctuary and were descendants of ʿAmr b. ʿĀmir, the one who left Yemen in anticipation of the Flood of the Dam, as mentioned earlier—joined forces against them. (Some say Khuzaʿah were from the descendants of Ishmael; Allah knows best.) In short, they assembled for war, declared hostilities, and fought, while the descendants of Ishmael stood apart from both sides.