“The Prophet of Arabia — Muhammad’s True Lineage in Early Arabic Sources” The Prophet Muḥammad (peace be upon him) descended from a line of jet-black Arabs whose complexion was described in the earliest Arabic texts as Ādam Shadīd al-Udma — intensely dark-skinned. Classical scholars such as al-Balādhurī, al-Suyūṭī, al-Jāḥiẓ, Ibn Manẓūr, and al-Dhahabī all recorded that the Prophet’s family—the Banū Hāshim—were dalham in color, “deep black and lordly.” This short cinematic sequence brings their o