We should try this

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

Salam, Ya Ali (as) Madad, Lanat upon the enemies of the Ahlulbayt (as)

Aliun Wali Allah Wajib

BAR MUQASSIRREEN LANAT

has anyone (sayeds, I am looking at you in particular) ever tried anything like this:

https://www.dna-worldwide.com/ancestry-dna-test/complete-ancestry-test-package

I am thinking about buying the package and seeing what I find out. as far as I know I am abbasid hashmi, but that's all word of mouth. Id like to see some sort of proof. be funny if I spent my whole life thinking Im Hashmi but it turns out my ancestors were actually chinese or something lol

how accurate are these things? how do they know how to link your DNA to other family trees? 

does 

[zainabamy 3,019]

Ws,

I think you can get it cheaper here:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/dna/

I'm going to do it when I'm earning inshallah. 

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

3 minutes ago, zainabamy said:

Ws,

I think you can get it cheaper here:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/dna/

I'm going to do it when I'm earning inshallah. 

InshaAllah soon, youre a teacher right? 

im trying to find a company that specialises in asian/ middle eastern ancestry. no point finding out if one of my ancestors was a viking bruv, my family are immigrants lol

[zainabamy 3,019]

17 minutes ago, DigitalUmmah said:

InshaAllah soon, youre a teacher right? 

im trying to find a company that specialises in asian/ middle eastern ancestry. no point finding out if one of my ancestors was a viking bruv, my family are immigrants lol

Yeah start next month inshallah

True dat, would be hilarious if you were a Viking. You've got the beard for it. 

[Akbar673 1,619]

29 minutes ago, DigitalUmmah said:

Salam, Ya Ali (as) Madad, Lanat upon the enemies of the Ahlulbayt (as)

Aliun Wali Allah Wajib

BAR MUQASSIRREEN LANAT

has anyone (sayeds, I am looking at you in particular) ever tried anything like this:

https://www.dna-worldwide.com/ancestry-dna-test/complete-ancestry-test-package

I am thinking about buying the package and seeing what I find out. as far as I know I am abbasid hashmi, but that's all word of mouth. Id like to see some sort of proof. be funny if I spent my whole life thinking Im Hashmi but it turns out my ancestors were actually chinese or something lol

how accurate are these things? how do they know how to link your DNA to other family trees? 

does 

I remember reading originally that the results were inconclusive but then a few months ago in a thread @wmehar2 mentioned to me in a thread that there was a new test (which tested a different strand of DNA, I believe) which was providing better results.

Not sure how far along we've come with the testing to accurately confirm whether one is Syed or not.

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

1 minute ago, zainabamy said:

You've got the beard for it. 

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

1 minute ago, Akbar673 said:

I remember reading originally that the results were inconclusive but then a few months ago in a thread @wmehar2 mentioned to me in a thread that there was a new test (which tested a different strand of DNA, I believe) which was providing better results.

Not sure how far along we've come with the testing to accurately confirm whether one is Syed or not.

I can imagine that the DNA will be focused on western europe/ african ancestry and little else. there must be an easy way to isolate the "sayed" gene, we have reliable bloodlines of sayeds on earth right now, surely we could cross reference them to build up an ancestry tree?

 

[ErikCartman 391]

40 minutes ago, DigitalUmmah said:

Salam, Ya Ali (as) Madad, Lanat upon the enemies of the Ahlulbayt (as)

Aliun Wali Allah Wajib

BAR MUQASSIRREEN LANAT

has anyone (sayeds, I am looking at you in particular) ever tried anything like this:

https://www.dna-worldwide.com/ancestry-dna-test/complete-ancestry-test-package

I am thinking about buying the package and seeing what I find out. as far as I know I am abbasid hashmi, but that's all word of mouth. Id like to see some sort of proof. be funny if I spent my whole life thinking Im Hashmi but it turns out my ancestors were actually chinese or something lol

how accurate are these things? how do they know how to link your DNA to other family trees? 

does 

[ShiaMan14 6,410]

I thought about this before but my hangup always is the source they use to determine 'syedness'. As in who is Patient 0 that we will all be measured against?

[zainabamy 3,019]

39 minutes ago, ErikCartman said:

LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL

[zainabamy 3,019]

(NOTE FROM NON-MOD) - This image needed to be halal-ified.

Sorry for the Wahhabi beards. 

[baradar_jackson 8,042]

^ The tasbih is a nice touch

[repenter-gone4awhile 7,284]

Already tried it. Pretty accurate...

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

2 minutes ago, repenter said:

Already tried it. Pretty accurate...

Who did you use? 

[repenter-gone4awhile 7,284]

6 minutes ago, DigitalUmmah said:

Who did you use? 

Myheritage

[DigitalUmmah 5,202]

Just now, repenter said:

Myheritage

Ok. i will use that one too. Will buy & report back

[Gaius I. Caesar 6,490]

Wouldn't it be interesting to see me find out that I am somehow Syed.

[wmehar2 589]

5 hours ago, DigitalUmmah said:

Salam, Ya Ali (as) Madad, Lanat upon the enemies of the Ahlulbayt (as)

Aliun Wali Allah Wajib

BAR MUQASSIRREEN LANAT

has anyone (sayeds, I am looking at you in particular) ever tried anything like this:

https://www.dna-worldwide.com/ancestry-dna-test/complete-ancestry-test-package

I am thinking about buying the package and seeing what I find out. as far as I know I am abbasid hashmi, but that's all word of mouth. Id like to see some sort of proof. be funny if I spent my whole life thinking Im Hashmi but it turns out my ancestors were actually chinese or something lol

how accurate are these things? how do they know how to link your DNA to other family trees? 

does 

You would need a Y, DNA test.  I would recommend getting the y-67  pack from familytree DNA.  if you care about recent heritage ,  then you can order the other tests for autosomal DNA.

 

Y DNA looks into direct paternal lineage , father to son.

They've easily honed in on a haplogroup and subclade for the Quraish/banu Hashim.  since Arabs are crazy about this stuff there have be been  many submissions from their peninunsla.  FTDNA has a comprehensive database as well.

J-859 is the subclade under the paternal haplogroup J1 (for which there are many branches) that's the strongest candidate for the Quraish /Sayyid/Hashim signature.  there's overwhelmong amounts of indicators in the data pointing to this branch.

 

That is not to say that R1 haplogroup (different paternal group known to be in south Asia ,  Europe etc.)  can't be a Quraish tribe member.  It just means that it's not a purely paternal tribe, which it wasn't . 

[Sumerian 5,408]

Sayyed Al-Sistani had a fatwa about this recently! All these attempts to prove one's link to the noble heritage are futile.

http://www.sistani.org/arabic/archive/25516/

[Gaius I. Caesar 6,490]

1 hour ago, E.L King said:

Sayyed Al-Sistani had a fatwa about this recently! All these attempts to prove one's link to the noble heritage are futile.

http://www.sistani.org/arabic/archive/25516/

Is there an English translation, I can't read Arabic yet.

[certainclarity 1,087]

3 hours ago, Gaius I. Caesar said:

Is there an English translation, I can't read Arabic yet.

From what I can gather bottom line and very briefly, he mentions it is  " Wa'ra " which is synonymous to Taqwa that we need."

__________

We know abu lahab was the prophet's Uncle who is closest to him in blood relations comparing to anyone of us is destined to hell, and Salman Farsi whose family was zoroastrian ( Majoos )and reverted to Christianty then Islam, and was looked down because he was not Arab, was called part of Ahlul bayt by the prophet.

That is why in the day of judgement all of our family ties will break and our real families will be based upon our level of faith and taqwa.

These kind of tests , specially to link your blood line to the prophet, leads to nothing but discord.

It is our inner virtues that make us a family to the prophet not physical blood relations.

I am glad he issued such a statement .

Edited January 18, 2017 by certainclarity

[Sumerian 5,408]

10 minutes ago, certainclarity said:

From what I can gather bottom line and briefly, he mentions it is  " Wa'ra " which is synonymous to Taqwa that we need."

We know abu lahab was the prophet's Uncle who is closest to him in blood relations comparing to anyone of us is destined to hell, and Salman Farsi whose family was zoroastrian ( Majoos )and reverted to Christianty then Islam, and was looked down because he was not Arab, was called part of Ahlul bayt by the prophet.

That is why in the day of judgement all of our family ties will break and our real families will be based upon our level of faith and taqwa.

These kind of tests , specially to link your blood line to the prophet, leads to nothing but discord.

It is our inner virtues that make us a family to the prophet not physical blood relations.

I am glad he issued such a statement .

He is saying other things about DNA tests and family trees and how this many times cannot be considered proof for "Sayedness" and how many people are claiming Sayyedness without strong proof and this is haram.

I understand the fatwa in Arabic but it would be better if a brother who is a good translator to translate this whole fatwa.

Edited January 18, 2017 by E.L King

[certainclarity 1,087]

15 minutes ago, E.L King said:

He is saying other things about DNA tests and family trees and how this cannot be considered proof for "Sayedness" and how many people are claiming Sayyedness without strong proof and this is haram.

Yes,I realized. I just went straight to the point of (Wa'ra ) taqwa, as this is the main thing. I did not want to elaborate more from what he said just so I don't misinform.

But thank you for confirming my thoughts, and yout over all view of fatwa, till someone procifient in translation, translates this fully.

This is a very wise statement. Poor Sistani he has to deal with such issues on daily basis from his moqalid that he had to issue a statement once and for all...

With this statement 90% wont be able to claim being a Syed.

It would be a good idea moderators pin this post for his moqalids, so that this way the threads related to syeds might decline.

Though I doubt anyone will pay attention...

Edited January 18, 2017 by certainclarity

[certainclarity 1,087]

@E.L King

could you find the exact hadith he stated from shia source?

The closest I came was from the sunni source where the prophet sends la'an to those who claim a father other than theirs?

Sunni Muslim:

خَطَبَنَا عَلِيُّ بن أبي طَالِبٍ فقال من زَعَمَ ان عِنْدَنَا شيئا نَقْرَؤُهُ إلا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَهَذِهِ الصَّحِيفَةَ قال وَصَحِيفَةٌ مُعَلَّقَةٌ في قِرَابِ سَيْفِهِ فَقَدْ كَذَبَ فيها أَسْنَانُ الْإِبِلِ وَأَشْيَاءُ من الْجِرَاحَاتِ وَفِيهَا قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الْمَدِينَةُ حَرَمٌ ما بين عَيْرٍ إلى ثَوْرٍ فَمَنْ أَحْدَثَ فيها حَدَثًا وَمَنْ ادَّعَى إلى غَيْرِ أبيه أو انْتَمَى إلى غَيْرِ مَوَالِيهِ فَعَلَيْهِ لَعْنَةُ اللَه وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ لَا يَقْبَلُ الله منه يوم الْقِيَامَةِ صَرْفًا ولا عَدْلًا

As his statement is based on a similar hadith and surah Ahzab:5

Edited January 18, 2017 by certainclarity

[starlight 9,807]

I doubt anyone is going to claim to be a syed based on DNA test.

Edited January 18, 2017 by starlight
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