Aqil ibn Abi Talib

Aqeel ibn Abi Talib ( ) was born in the year 590. Aqeel was second of four sons of Abu Talib , who was the uncle and protector of Muhammad . Aqeel's nickname was Abu Yazid. He fought in the Battle of Mu'tah and became blind late in life, dying at the age of 96. Aqeel had five sons, Muslim ibn Aqeel, Muhammad ibn Aqeel, Yazid ibn Aqeel, Issa ibn Aqeel, Al-Hassan ibn Aqeel], and a daughter, Ramlah bint Aqeel. Aqeel was the man who found Umme Habiba to marry Imam Ali. Aqeel is also the ancestor of : The Banu Dawud or the Darod clan of Somalia through his son, Muhammad ibn Aqeel. The Bajaber clan from Hadhramaut , Yemen . The Uqaili clan from Sindh , Iran and Iraq

Aqeel was second of four sons of Abu Talib , who was the uncle and protector of Muhammad and father of Ali ibn Abi Talib . Aqeel's nickname was Abu Aqeel. He fought in the Battle of Mu'tah and became a respectable person in life. He died at the age of 96. Aqeel had six sons, Muslim ibn Aqeel , Jaffar ibn Aqeel, Musa ibn Aqeel, Abdul Rahman ibn Aqeel, Abdullah ibn Aqeel, Abi Saeed ibn Aqeel, and a daughter, Ramlah bint Aqeel. Aqeel was the man who found Umm ul-Banin to marry Imam Ali . Descendants of Aqeel Ibn Abu talib are numerous and spread out Yemen , parts of Oman , and a large portion of Somalia . Aqeel was known as an one of the four experts in the genealogy and history of the Quraish tribe.

Grave Abdullah bin Jafar (left) and Aqeel bin Abi Talib (right), Jannat al-Baqi' , Medina Location of grave of Aqeel (left most square amongst three together) and others at J.Baqi,Medina Aqeel ibn Abi Talib ( , ʿAqīl ibn ʾAbī Ṭālib ) was a companion and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . He was known by the kunyas Abu Aqeel and Abu Yazid .

Cousin of Muhammad and brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib (lit. "Aqil the Son of Abu Talib "; full name Abū Yazīd ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim , Arabic : أبو يزيد عقيل بن أبي طالب بن عبد المطّلب بن هاشم ), c. 580 – 670 or 683 , was a cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and an elder brother of Ali and Ja'far ibn Abi Talib . Having fought on the side of the Qurayshi rulers of Mecca against Muhammad and the early Muslims, he converted to Islam a few years before the death of Muhammad in 632 . Under the second caliph Umar , he was appointed a position as an expert in the genealogy of the Quraysh. During the rivalry between his brother Ali (who reigned as the fourth caliph from 656 until his death in 661 ) and Mu'awiya (the first Umayyad caliph ) Aqil first chose the side of his brother, but later may have deserted him in favor of Mu'awiya, as the latter is said to have offered him better financial incentives. He was noted by later authors for his eloquence as well as for transmitting a number of hadith . Due to his close kinship with both Muhammad and with Ali, his descendants were sometimes reckoned among the Ahl al-Bayt (the extended family of Muhammad venerated by Shiite Muslims) by later generations. Most notably, the great majority of Somali clans claim to be descended from Aqil ibn Abi Talib, though this is historically untenable.