A single fact about his family background would prove crucial later in life: as a member of Iraq’s al-Bu Badri tribe, he could claim to be part of the same ancestral line as Muhammad—a requirement, in the opinion of some Islamic scholars, for anyone seeking to become the caliph, or the leader of the Muslim nation.
Mohammad had a whole bunch of wives, many of them children. Was this tribe based on one of his raped child-wives?
