After his father’s death, the offices of providing water for the pilgrims (siqāyah) and feeding them (rifādah) passed to Hāshim. Both he and his brother al-Muṭṭalib alone were counted among the “Near Kindred,” and throughout both the pre-Islamic period and the Islamic era they remained united; they even shared the confinement in the mountain defile, whereas the clans of ʿAbd Shams and Nawfal abandoned them. Concerning this, Abū Ṭālib said in his ode:

May God requite ʿAbd Shams and Nawfal on our behalf
With an evil chastisement—swift, not deferred.

No sons of a single father are known to have died in places so far apart as these brothers. Hāshim died in Gaza, in the Syrian region; ʿAbd Shams died in Mecca; Nawfal died at Salāmān in Iraq; and al-Muṭṭalib—who, for his beauty, was called “the Moon”—died at Raymān on the road to Yemen. These, then, are the four celebrated brothers: Hāshim, ʿAbd Shams, Nawfal, and al-Muṭṭalib.

They had a fifth brother, little known, Abū ʿAmr—whose name was ʿAbd. His original name was ʿAbd Qusayy, but people shortened it to ʿAbd ibn Qusayy. He died without offspring, as related by al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār and others.

Their six sisters were Tamāḍir, Ḥayyah, Rayṭah, Qilābah, Umm al-Akhtam, and Umm Sufyān.

All of these were the children of ʿAbd Manāf—Manāf being the name of an idol. His given name was al-Mughīrah. He had already assumed leadership in his father’s lifetime and attained every form of honor. He was the brother of ʿAbd al-Dār, the eldest of the sons, to whom the official dignities were bequeathed, as noted earlier. Among the children of Qusayy were also ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, ʿAbd, Barrah, and Takhmur; their mother was Hubbā bint Hulayyil ibn Hubshiyyah ibn Salūl ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿAmr al-Khuzaʿī, whose father was the last king of Khuzaʿah and their final guardian of the Kaʿbah.

All of them were the children of Qusayy, whose personal name was Zayd. He was nicknamed Qusayy (“the distant one”) because, after his father’s death, his mother married Rabīʿah ibn Ḥarām ibn ʿUdhrah, who took her to his homeland while her son was still small; hence the epithet. When he grew up, he returned to Mecca.