Al-Azd passes lineage through ancient ancestors that inhabited the Fertile Crescent, before moving to Northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, this has stirred up controversy among the scholars since they pass through the same Lineage that the Qedarites (Such as Quraysh) have, as opposed to the Qahtanites who pass lineage through ancestors that inhabited Southern Arabia. However, few scholars have said Nabit was the son of Malik bin Zayd bin Kahlan bin Saba bin Yaman bin Yarub bin Qahtan bin Abir (there are also the same number of generations between Ismail and Abir).