Editing Ismail Ibn Sharif (section)

== Marriages, concubines, and children ==
Moulay Ismail was a serial polygamist.<ref name=":23">{{Cite book |last=[[Ibn Zaydan|Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan]] |script-title=ar:المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل بن الشريف |publisher=مطبعة "إديال" |year=1993 |location=[[Casablanca]] |pages=391–393 |language=ar}}</ref> According to the writings of the French Trinitarian priest Father [[Dominique Busnot]], Moulay Ismail had at least 500 concubines and at least 600 living children in 1704, which did not include his daughters by his four principle wives. Busot reports the rumor that any others were ordered to be strangled at birth.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Busnot |first1=Fr. Dominique |title=The history of the reign of Muley Ismael, the present king of Morocco, Fez, Tafilet, Sous, &tc. |url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-the-reign_busnot-dominique_1715/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |publisher=Roan |access-date=7 October 2024 |ref=p. 48, 52}}</ref> Historian [[Ibn Zaydan|Abd al-Rahman Ibn Zaydan]] recorded children of around 68<ref name=":23" /> wedded wives<ref name=":23" /> and 8 unnamed slave concubines from the royal birth registers kept during the reign of [[Mohammed III of Morocco|Sidi Mohammed III]].<ref name=":23" /> He specifies that upon Ismail's death the full number of his wives and harem slave concubines was 700.<ref name=":23" />  The final total is uncertain: the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of Records]]'' claims 1042, with no source.<ref name="GBR" /> Based on Busnot's 1704 figures, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer of the [[University of Vienna]] calculated Ismail could have fathered approximately 1171 children in a 32-year reproductive span.<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Elisabeth Oberzaucher |author2=Karl Grammer |year=2014 |title=The Case of Moulay Ismael – Fact or Fancy? |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=e85292 |bibcode=2014PLoSO...985292O |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=3925083 |pmid=24551034 |doi-access=free}}.</ref> The historian [[Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani|Al Zayani]], who was in charge of royal protocol under Sultan Sidi Mohammed III, recounts that with his own eyes he saw the exhaustive list of Moulay Ismail's children and that his descendants occupied 500 houses in [[Sijilmasa]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=al-Zayyani |first=Abu al-Qasim |author-link=Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d |title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni ; publié et traduit par O. Houdas |date=1886 |page=54 |language=fr}}</ref> He also specified that the list to which he had access did not contain the names of Moulay Ismail's children who had no descendants.<ref name=":8" />

A partial restoration of Moulay Ismail's descent through his wives and slave concubines is listed below. His first recorded marriage took place in 1670, the order of his nuptials are unclear after his first recorded spouse. Posterity did not remember many of the full names of his wives. And in accordance with Muslim traditions, slave concubines do not have a last name, they are renamed at the time of their conversion to Islam. Their birth names were not subject to meticulous safeguarding, which is why few of these women are identifiable by their birth name. The descendants of his wives who have a full name or biography are listed first, then those of his wives who do not have a full name, then a partial list of his descendants through his slave concubines:
* A daughter of a Saadi prince,<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=trans. from Arabic by Eugène Fumet|first=Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri|url=http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf|title=Kitâb Elistiqsâ li-Akhbâri doual Elmâgrib Elaqsâ [" Le livre de la recherche approfondie des événements des dynasties de l'extrême Magrib "], vol. IX: Chronique de la dynastie alaouie au Maroc|date=|publisher=Ernest Leroux|page=53|language=fr|quote="the young girl was descended from the [[Saadi Sultanate|Saadian]] princes"|access-date=12 December 2021|archive-date=4 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004001249/http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> married on 5 April 1670, at Dar Ben Chegra in Fez. According to [[Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani|Al Zayani]] it was during the month of [[Shawwal]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=O. Houdas|first=Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al-Zayyānī|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d/f32.item#|title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni|date=1886|publisher=Paris, Ernest Leroux|page=21|language=fr|quote=in the month of [[Shawwal|chaoual]] he married his brother Moulay Ismail}}</ref> while [[Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri]] states it took place 14 of [[Dhu al-Qadah]]<ref name=":4" /> 1080 in [[Islamic calendar]]. The wedding probably took place between the two dates thus March to 5 April 1670, AD, as royalty often had 7 days wedding.<ref name=":24">{{Cite book|last=Germain Mouette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiyHt-zFxxkC&q=ibn|title=Histoires Des Conquestes De Mouley Archy, Connu Sous Le Nom De Roy De Tafilet|date=1683|publisher=Edme Coutirot|page=36|language=fr}}</ref> Whether they had issue is not stated.
* A daughter of Shaykh Al-Lawati who was the widow of his half-brother Sultan [[Al-Rashid of Morocco|Moulay Rashid]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Germain Mouette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiyHt-zFxxkC&q=ibn|title=Histoires Des Conquestes De Mouley Archy, Connu Sous Le Nom De Roy De Tafilet|date=1683|publisher=Edme Coutirot|page=187|language=fr|quote="Checq Loüety ... although the king furthermore married his daughter, widow of his brother"}}</ref> She was from the oriental [[Rif]] region, her father was Cheick of his Arab Maqil or Berber tribe.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Germain Mouette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiyHt-zFxxkC&q=ibn|title=Histoires Des Conquestes De Mouley Archy, Connu Sous Le Nom De Roy De Tafilet|date=1683|publisher=Edme Coutirot|page=33|language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Mercer2">{{Cite book |last=Mercer |first=Patricia Ann |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29688/1/10752660.pdf |title=Political and military developments within Morocco during the early Alawi Period (1659–1727) |date=1974 |publisher=[[SOAS University of London]] |page=74 |language=en}}</ref> The wedding happened after 9 April 1672, but his date of marriage is unclear. Whether they had issues is not stated.
* [[Lalla Aisha Mubarka]]. The origins of this lady are unclear, initially, she was a ''[[jarya]]'' (slave [[Concubinage|concubine]]) of Sultan Moulay Rashid. Sources claim that Moulay Ismail brought her from his brother in the early 1670s and ended up marrying her.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|date=2014-01-01|title=Zeydana: زيدانة.. ضعف أمامها مولاي إسماعيل قاطع الرؤوس ودفعته إلى قتل ضرتها وابنهما!|url=https://m.febrayer.com/9700.html|access-date=2021-12-12|website=فبراير.كوم {{!}} موقع مغربي إخباري شامل يتجدد على مدار الساعة|language=ar|quote=Lalla Aisha is her real name, and she was one of the ''[[jarya|jawaris]]'' (slave [[Concubinage|concubine]])  of [[Al-Rashid of Morocco|Moulay Rachid]], brother of Sultan Moulay Ismail. The Sultan bought her and married her from among the beautiful women ...}}</ref><ref name=":12" group="L">{{harvnb|El Hamel|2014|pp=192-193|p=}}</ref> Lalla Aisha Mubarka (or Zaydana after her firstborn son Zaydan) was one of Moulay Ismail's much-esteemed wives. She was described as a woman of great intuition.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2014-01-01 |title=Zeydana: زيدانة.. ضعف أمامها مولاي إسماعيل قاطع الرؤوس ودفعته إلى قتل ضرتها وابنهما! |url=https://m.febrayer.com/9700.html |access-date=2021-12-12 |website=فبراير.كوم {{!}} موقع مغربي إخباري شامل يتجدد على مدار الساعة |language=en-US}}</ref> About her, Moulay Ismail was quoted saying that: "she was wiser than most men".<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=http://www.habous.gov.ma/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%86/989-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85/%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%86-2014/5367-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A3%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9.html |title=Zahraa Najia Al-Zahrawi: Women's Contribution to Building the Moroccan Spirit |date=2014 |publisher= |pages= |language=ar}}</ref> She had substantial influence over Ismail and sought to get her son Moulay Zaydan enthroned for many years before he was finally secretly executed by his father in 1708.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Woodacre|first=E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0h-uAgAAQBAJ&q=lalla|title=Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras|date=2013-12-18|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-36283-4|page=194|language=en}}</ref> They had several children<ref name=":23" /> among them Moulay Zaydan,<ref name=":12" group="L" /> Sultan [[Moulay Ahmad al-Dhahbi]]<ref group="L">{{harvnb|El Hamel|2014|pp=|p=8}}</ref> and Sultan Moulay [[Ali of Morocco|Ali]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Braithwaite |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJA_AAAAMAAJ&q=mother |title=The History of the Revolutions in the Empire of Morocco: Upon the Death of the Late Emperor Muley Ishmael; Being a Most Exact Journal of what Happen'd in Those Parts in the Last and Part of the Present Year. With Observations Natural, Moral and Political, Relating to that Country and People |date=1729 |publisher=J. Darby and T. Browne |page=18 |language=en |quote=had routed the Army commanded by Muley Ally the [[Abu'l Abbas Ahmad of Morocco|Emperor]]'s Brother by the same Mother}}</ref>
* [[Ma'azuza Malika|Lalla Ma'azuza Malika]]. In the late 1720s [[John Braithwaite (author)|John Braithwaite]] member of the British consulate in Morocco explains that Ma'azuza was not so much in the favors of Moulay Ismail.<ref>{{Cite book |last=John Braithwaite |url= |title=The History of the Revolutions in the Empire of Morocco: Upon the Death of the late Emperor Muley Ishmael |date=2018 |publisher=Gale Ecco, Print Editions |page=2 |language=en}}</ref> Their sons were Sultan [[Abdalmalik of Morocco|Moulay Abdalmalik]], Moulay Abd al Rahman and Moulay Hussein.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan |first=Abd al-Rahman |title=تحميل كتاب المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشريف 4098 PDF |url=https://www.noor-book.com/كتاب-المنزع-اللطيف-في-مفاخر-المولي-اسماعيل-ابن-الشريف-4098-pdf |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=www.noor-book.com |page=392 |language=ar |quote=}}</ref>
* [[Khnata bent Bakkar|Lalla Khanatha bint Bakkar]], married in 1678. She was from the [[Oudaya|Mghafra]] tribe of the [[Beni Ḥassān|Awlad Hassān]], the aristocratic caste of the [[Beidane]]. Khnata bint Bakkar, daughter of the Grand Sheikh Bakkar al-Mghafri, was famous for her beauty, intelligence, and learning. Her family seat is in the region of [[Sbouya]], commonly referred to as [[Oued Noun]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=al-Zayyānī|first=Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d|title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni ; publié et traduit par O. Houdas|date=1886|page=74|language=EN|quote=[[Abdallah of Morocco|Abdallah]] went to ... [[Noun River (Morocco)|Oued Noun]], where he stayed for more than two years with his maternal uncles, the Moâfera.}}</ref> Her children with Moulay Ismail are Moulay Mohammed, Moulay Hafiz, Moulay Mehrez, Moulay Mohammed al-Mutais and [[Abdallah of Morocco|Sultan Moulay Abdallah]].
* Lalla Alwa Benabiz.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Thomas Pellow |url=https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ.pdf |title=The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner |date=1890 |publisher=Robert Brown |pages=54–57 |language=en |quote=Muley Spha, one of his favourite sons (a sad villain), born of his wife Alloabenabiz by whom he had in all ten children, viz., seven sons and three daughters}}</ref> They had ten children seven sons and three daughters,<ref name=":0" /> one of them is Moulay Ṣafā (Muley Spha),<ref name=":0" /> he was [[Thomas Pellow]]'s first master.
* [[Aouda Doukalia|Lalla Aouda Doukalia]], date of wedding unknown. Her surname might suggest origins from the [[Doukkala]] tribe. Their children were Sultan [[Al-Mostadi of Morocco|Al-Mustadi]], Moulay Bi'nassir, another Moulay Hussein, and other unnamed children.<ref name=":25">{{Cite book |last=[[Ibn Zaydan|Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan]] |title=المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل بن الشريف (almanzie allatif fi mafakhir almawla [[Ismail ibn Sharif|'iismaeil bin alsharif]]) |publisher=الطبعة الأولى, مطبعة "إديال". الدار البيضاء |year=1993 |location=[[Casablanca]] |page=392 |language=ar |quote=and Sultan Mostadi and his full brothers Bi'nassir and al-Hussein as well as other unnamed siblings, their mother is Aouda Doukalia}}</ref>
* Princess [[Nassira el-Salwi bint Mohammed el-Heyba]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kane |first=Saidou |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoRpEAAAQBAJ&dq=moulay+ismail+brakna&pg=PT35 |title=Histoire de l'esclavage et des luttes anti-esclavagistes en Mauritanie |date=2022-01-16 |publisher=epubli |isbn=978-3-7549-4101-0 |language=de |quote=and the Brakna among whom, yet, he took a wife in the person of En-Nassira Es-Salwi, daughter of the Emir Mohamed el Hayba Ould Nogmach}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite book |last=Pellow |first=Thomas |url=https://ia801607.us.archive.org/25/items/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ.pdf |title=The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner |pages=140 |language=en}}</ref> originally from [[Brakna Region|Brakna]], married the latter either in 1678/9<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Guillaume |first1=Philippe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziBPyzRbTGsC&dq=brakna++Mohamed+El+Heyba&pg=PA461 |title=La première hégémonie peule |last2=Péjout |first2=Nicolas |last3=Kabwe-Segatti |first3=Aurelia Wa |last4=Africa) |first4=IFAS (Institute : South |date=2004-12-01 |publisher=KARTHALA Editions |isbn=978-2-8111-3840-0 |pages=461 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rézette |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyw6QbFX7HcC&dq=brakna+moulay+ismail&pg=PA48 |title=The Western Sahara and the Frontiers of Morocco |date=1975 |publisher=Nouvelles Editions Latines |pages=48 |language=en}}</ref> or in 1690.<ref name=":15" /> Whether they had descendants is not indicated.
* [[Halima Al Sufyaniyah|Lalla Halima Al Sufyaniyah]],<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=[[Thomas Pellow]] |url=https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_HPQqAAAAYAAJ.pdf |title=The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner |date=1890 |publisher=Robert Brown |page=57 |language=en |quote=...he and his favourite Queen Hellema Hazzezas (in English the beloved) ...her favourite son Muly Zidan, a youth of about eight years of age}}</ref> married around 1707 (Thomas Pellow accounts of her favorite son aged 8 circa 1715). She was from the [[Doukkala-Abda|Doukkala]] region and is the daughter of Cheikh Ali bin Hussein of Bani Sweid, from the Sufiyan tribe of [[Banu Hilal|Hilali]] Arab origins. Her son was Moulay Zeydan Seghir<ref name=":23" /> (born c. 1707).<ref name=":7" />
* [[Lalla Umm al-Iz at-Taba|Lalla Um'el'Iz Tabba'a]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-01-17|title=Queens who ruled Morocco: Um'el'Iz Tabba'a|url=https://admin.febrayer.com/9720.html|access-date=2021-12-12|website=فبراير.كوم {{!}} موقع مغربي إخباري شامل يتجدد على مدار الساعة|language=ar|quote=Um'el'Iz ... one of the wives of sultan moulay ismail, who had the same place as sultana zidana and...|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212153442/https://admin.febrayer.com/9720.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> date of wedding and origins unknown. Her son was another Moulay Abdallah.<ref name=":23" />
* Abhar Doukalia,<ref name=":9" /> she was the mother of Mussa al-Hadi.<ref name=":9" />
* Fatima Ouardighiya,<ref name=":9" /> her son is a third son named Abdallah.<ref name=":9" />
* Zahra al-Malikiya,<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |last=Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan |first=Abd al-Rahman |url=https://www.noor-book.com/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-4098-pdf |title=المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشرف |year=1993 |location=[[Casablanca]] |page=393 |language=ar}}</ref> she was the mother of Al-Ishwa and Al-Cheick Saghir.<ref name=":10" />
* Mask'al'Juyub Soufiyania,<ref name=":10" /> she was the mother of Abd al-Malik.<ref name=":10" />
* Rahma al Salaouia.<ref name=":10" /> she was a native of [[Salé]], her son is Mohammed.<ref name=":10" />
* Fidah Doukalia,<ref name=":10" /> she was the mother of Abdallah Boumnad.<ref name=":10" />
* Maria al-Aljaa,<ref name=":10" /> she was the mother of Moulay Binaser and Al-Mu'atamid.<ref name=":10" />
* Sounah al-Dir'iyah,<ref name=":10" /> she was the mother of Al-Walid al Mouthalath.<ref name=":10" />
* Ruqiya al-Saidiya<ref name=":10" /> (not Sa'adiya), she was the mother of Mohammed.<ref name=":10" />
* Um'el'Saad Malikiya,<ref name=":10" /> her sons are Al Harran and Mehrez.<ref name=":10" />
* Jamila al-Malikiya,<ref name=":13" /> She was the mother of Moulay Moustada.<ref name=":13" />

Below the name Chaouia means an origin from [[Chaouia (Morocco)|Chaouia]], a geographical area which can also be a tribe. A large number of Moulay Ismail's wives were designated as "Chaouia". Listed below is the descendants he had with his wives, of which only a part of their names are recorded: their tribal origins or their first name. It is unsure wheteher the women whom only their first name is given were all born free Muslims. The fact that only their first name is retained may indicate slave status, therefore lacking a family name or tribal affiliation. His numerous descendants include:

* Lalla Amina and her full brother Sidi Mohammed: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":11">{{Cite book |last=ibn Zaydan |first=Abd al-Rahman |url=https://www.noor-book.com/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-4098-pdf |title=المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشريف |year=1993 |location=[[Casablanca]] |page=392 |language=ar}}</ref>
* Prince Suleiman al Kabir: his mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":11" />
* Sultan Sidi Mohammed and another daughter named Amina: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":11" />
* Rachid, Binaser and Binaser: their mother is Hayaniya.<ref name=":11" />
* Abdel Karim, Harran, Hicham, Fadel and Lalla Sakina: their mother's name is Abla.<ref name=":11" />
* Al Mouktadir: his mother is Doukalia.<ref name=":11" />
* Abi Marwan du Sous and Abu Faris: their mother's name is Haniya.<ref name=":11" />
* Abu Kacim: his mother is Za'ariye.<ref name=":11" />
* Abdeslam, Mohammed al Dayf,<ref name=":11" /> Mohammed Al Mustadi Abbas, Mohammed Al Muntasir, Mohammed Al Rashid, Sulaiman, Mohammed Telgui, Mohammed Al Mouhtadi, Mohammed Al Walid, Hassan and Idris:<ref name=":11" /> their mother is Talikiya.<ref name=":11" />
* Nasser: his mother is Marrakchiya,<ref name=":11" /> meaning a native of [[Marrakesh]].
* Fatoum (nickname for Fatima) and al-Fadil: their mother is Alja (''umahu aljaa'').<ref name=":11" />
* Moulay Abou Nasser: his mother is Dlimiya,<ref name=":11" /> meaning from the [[Oulad Delim]] tribe.
* Hafid al Ikhlaf, Moulay Ali and Prince al-Mouhtadi (Who revolted in [[Salé]] during the reign of his brother Sidi Mohammed):<ref name=":11" /> their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":11" />
* Suleiman al Saghir and al-Taqaa: their mother is Malikiya.<ref name=":11" />
* Abdelhaq: his mother is Malikiya.<ref name=":11" />
* Khaled al-Hutha, al-Rachid al Kabir and Mohammed: their mother is from the Awlad Hmami tribe.<ref name=":11" />
* Mohammed al Habib: his mother's name is Zubaida.<ref name=":11" />
* Sultan Moulay Zine El Abidine, Jaafar and Moussa: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Mamune Saghir: his mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* A second son named Idriss, al-Mehdi and [[Lalla Sitt al-Mulk]]:<ref name=":10" />  their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Asrur al-Safah, Mehrez, al-Mu'tedad and Mohammed al Gharfi: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Al Taher and Abd al Malik: their mother is Doukalia.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Wallad and Sidi Issa Idriss: their mother is Shams al-Dhuha Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Cherif and al-Murtaja: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Said al Saghir: his mother is Hayania.<ref name=":10" />
* Abd al-Kadir: his mother is from the Awlad Asfir tribe.<ref name=":10" />
* Abd al-Mamun: his mother is Tadlaouia,<ref name=":10" /> meaning a native of [[Tadla]].
* Al-Walid al Kebir: his mother is Fulania, which means [[Fula people|Fulani]] in Arabic.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Mu'atamid: his mother is Malikiya.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Hakim and al-Kebir: his mother is Doukaliya.<ref name=":10" />
* Moulay Moubarak: his mother is Doukaliya.<ref name=":10" />
* Abd al-Wahid: his mother is Malikiya.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Salem, Haroun and Sitt al-Nafissa: their mother is Kawthar Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Abu Faris ([father of Moulay Mehrez whose son Hassan and 25 other boys]<ref name=":10" /> the latter killed the sons of his brother Moulay Youssef in 1748 [1162 AH 60] and caused damage to his nephew Moulay Cherif ben Zine El Abidine),<ref name=":10" /> al-Othmani and another son named Sidi Mohammed:<ref name=":10" /> their mother is a native of Thaghr Azamour.<ref name=":10" />
* Abdallah and al-Talib: their mother is Kinawiya.<ref name=":10" />
* Othman al-Thani: his mother is Malikiya.<ref name=":10" />
* Taya: his mother is from the Awlad al-Haj tribe, an Arab tribe.<ref name=":10" />
* Al Mu'atasim and another daughter named Sitt al Mulk: their mother is Aljaa.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Chérif and Lalla Safia: their mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":10" />
* Mohammed: his mother is Talikiya.<ref name=":10" />
* Suleiman: his mother is Jami'iya.<ref name=":10" />
* An unnamed daughter, Mu'awiya and al-Hassan: their mother's name is al-Bustan, she was a native of [[Debdou]].<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Qaim: his mother's name is Khalia.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=ibn Zaydan |first=Abd al-Rahman |url=https://www.noor-book.com/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-4098-pdf#google_vignette |title=المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشريف |year=1993 |location=[[Casablanca]] |page=394 |language=ar}}</ref>
* Moulay Abu Marwan and Youssef: their mother is Em'nebhiye,<ref name=":13" /> from the Mnebha tribe.
* Al-Muktafi: his mother is Dukaliya.<ref name=":13" />
* A second son named Abd-el Rahman: his mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":13" />
* Abd-el Rahman al Muthalath: his mother is Malkiya<ref name=":13" /> (not to be confused with the spelling Malikiya).
* A fourth son named Abdallah: his mother is Hasiniya.<ref name=":13" />
* Al Mu'tamid al Saghir: his mother is Chaouia.<ref name=":13" />
* Mohammed al-Aqra' and Suleiman: their mother is from the Sufiyan tribe.<ref name=":13" />
* Mohammed: his mother is Boukhariya<ref name=":13" /> (probably a slave of [[Abid al-Bukhari]]).
* Moulay Taleb: his mother's name is Malika.<ref name=":11" />

Many of his concubines are only fragmentary documented. As [[concubinage in Islam|concubines]], they were slave captives, sometimes from Europe. Here is list of children he had with some of his slave concubines from the harem, as well as the details known about their mother:

* Moulay Mohammed Alim and Moulay Cherif:<ref name=":11" /> their mother is al-Darah, a Spanish slave concubine.<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":2" /> She was his favorite and Moulay Ismail educated himself their son Moulay Mohammed Alim, his once favorite son. Around 1702, Al-Darah tragically died strangled by Moulay Ismail whom [[Lalla Aisha Mubarka|Lalla Aisha]] had made believe she had betrayed him.<ref name=":2" />
* Cheick al-Kabir: his mother is a slave concubine designated as ''ama''.<ref name=":11" />
* Daoud: his mother is a slave concubine designated as ''ama''.<ref name=":10" />
* Al-Said: his mother is a slave of the Awlad Sidi ben Issa tribe<ref name=":10" /> who was offered as a slave concubine to Moulay Ismaïl.<ref name=":10" />
* Abd-al Hadi al Kabir, Abd-al Hadi Saghir: their mother is a slave concubine designated as ''ama''.<ref name=":10" />
* Youssef Saghir: his mother is a slave concubine designated as ''ama''.<ref name=":10" />
* A son, born to an English slave concubine [[Lalla Balqis]] (born 1670).<ref name="Bekkaoui, Khalid 1830">Bekkaoui, Khalid., White women captives in North Africa. Narratives of enslavement, 1735–1830, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010, p.26</ref> She was captured by [[Barbary pirates]] in 1685, at the age of fifteen, while traveling with her mother to the [[Barbados]]. She was sold at the slave market in Morocco and given as a gift to the sultan. Converted to Islam under the name Balqis and included in his harem, she was one of Moulay Ismail's favorites. She became a privileged and influential concubine. Her influence in the harem was so well known that she was among the harem women who received diplomatic gifts from the British ambassador [[Charles Stewart (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Stewart]] during his visit to [[Meknes]] in 1721.{{fact|date=July 2024}}

An Irish woman by the name Mrs. Shaw, was at one point in her life a slave concubine of Moulay Ismail. She was brought to his harem after having been enslaved and was made to convert to Islam when the Sultan wished to have intercourse with her, but was manumitted and married off to a Spanish convert when the Sultan grew tired of her. The Spanish convert being very poor, she was described by contemporary witnesses as reduced to beggary,<ref name="Bekkaoui, Khalid 1830" /><ref>Braithwaite, John, The history of the revolutions in the Empire of Morocco, upon the death of the late Emperor Muley Ishmael; being a most exact journal of what happened in those parts in the last and part of the present year. ... Written by Captain Braithwaite, ... With a map of the country, engraved by Mr. Senex., printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, London, 1729</ref> before she was helped by John Russell, the British consul general.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Braithwaite |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJA_AAAAMAAJ&q=mrs |title=The History of the Revolutions in the Empire of Morocco: Upon the Death of the Late Emperor Muley Ishmael; Being a Most Exact Journal of what Happen'd in Those Parts in the Last and Part of the Present Year. With Observations Natural, Moral and Political, Relating to that Country and People |date=1729 |publisher=James and John Knapton, Arthur Bettesworth, Francis Fayram, John Osborn and Thomas Longman, and Charles Rivington. |pages=191 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=The National |title=The Discovery Service |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F69923 |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>