Kilab ibn Murrah (373-423) was the son of Murrah Hashimid and the father of Qusai ibn Kilab. Kilab was the son of Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik by his first wife Hind bint Surayr ibn Thalabah ibn Harith ibn Fihr ibn Malik.

He was the sixth-in-line of Muhammad's grandfathers. Qusai grew up treating his step-father, Rabi'ah, as his father. He is best known for being an ancestor of the Ummayad and Hashemite Dynasties which included Islamic Prophet Muhammad as well as the 3rd and the 4th Rashidun Caliph: Uthman and Ali, and the later Umayyad, Qusai ibn Kilab ibn Murrah (Arabic: قُصَيّ ٱبْن كِلَاب ٱبْن مُرَّة‎, Qusayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah; ca. 400–480), also spelled Qusayy, Kusayy, Kusai, or Cossai, born Zayd (Arabic: زَيْد‎), was an Ishmaelite descendant of the Prophet Abraham, orphaned early on he would rise to become King of Makkah, and leader of the Quraysh tribe. Kilab ibn Murrah is similar to these people: An-Nadr ibn Kinanah, Zuhrah ibn Kilab, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai and more. He is also the common ancestor of six of Muhammad's eight great-grandparents. Biography. Kilab had 2 brothers: Taym ibn Murrah and one other sibling.

Qusai complained to his mother, who replied "O my son," she said, "your descent is nobler than theirs, you are the son of Kilab ibn Murrah, and your people live in the proximity of the Qusai brought his nearest of kin of Quraysh, and settled them in the Meccan valley besides the Qusai ruled as a King. Kilab ibn Murrah was born in 373 to the Hashimids, a pagan clan of Mecca. When a quarrel broke out between Qusai and some members of the tribe of Rabi'ah, they reproached him and betrayed the fact that they never regarded him as one of their own. Murrah ibn Ka'b (Arabic: مُرَّة ٱبْن كَعْب ‎) ibn Luay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik was a man from Quraysh tribe, supposed to have lived in the 4th century. He is the common ancestor of all four of Muhammad's grandparents. He was an ancestor of Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib, two central figures of Islam. Kilab ibn Murrah (Arabic: كِلَاب ٱبْن مُرَّة‎) (born 373 AD) was an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He reconstructed the Kaaba from a state of decay, and made the Kilab ibn Murrah was born circa 373, to Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik and Hind ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik (born bint Surayr ibn Thalabah ibn Harith ibn Fihr ibn Malik). Kilab ibn Murrah (Arabic: كلاب بن مُرة ‎‎) (born 373 CE) was the paternal great-great-great-great grandfather and maternal great-great-great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muḥammad..