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Qusayy ibn Kilab
Qusayy ibn Kilab was, according to Arab tradition, the leader who gathered the scattered clans of the Quraysh in Mecca in the 5th century and won control of the Kaaba from the Khuza'a. He organised the pilgrimage and founded the Dar al-Nadwa, the council house of Mecca. He was an ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad.
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