Descent from the Prophet can also come from the maternal side as from the paternal

Among the Ottomans it was sufficient for one's paternal line of
descent to go back to our Prophet (saas) to be regarded as a sayyid.
However, it is also possible to be a sayyid on one's mother's side
only. The rank of sayyid goes back to the daughter of our
Prophet(saas) and Hazrat Fatima (ra), the mother of Hazrat Hassan (ra)
and Hazrat Hussain (ra). Our Prophet (saas) also had male children,
but these died at an early age. TheProphet's (saas) line was thus
continued through his daughter. As it can beunderstood, one can thus
be a sayyid throughthe maternal line as can be from the paternal . The
great Islamic scholars Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi (1703-1780) and Abdul
Qadir Gaylani (1078-1166) were both sayyids on their mothers'sides.

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