Talk:Jerah

Jerah is known in Arab as Yarrob (Arabic: يعرب, also Ya'rob, Yarrob, or Yar'ub, or "Yaarub") is an ancient Arabic personal name. Arab and Islamic genealogies identify Yarrob as the grandson of Hud (biblical Eber) and son of Qahtan (biblical Joktan), and the ancestor of the Himyarite kings of Yemen.[1][2] A similar account places Yarrob as Qahtan's grandson (Yarrob bin Yashjub bin Qahtan) and holds that he is the forefather of al-'Arab al-'Ariba ("the arab arabs" or "pure arabs"), who are generally identified with the Qahtanites and its two main tribes, the Himyar and the Kahlan.[3] Some legendary accounts relate that Yarrob was the first to speak Arabic and that the language was named for him.[2][4] Shams-i Qais Razi, writing in the 12-13th century CE, traced the origins of Arabic poetry to Ya'rab and he is also credited with having invented the Kufic script.[5][6] His continued line can be shown as an example the following:

al-Khazraj[8]ibn Harithah ibn Tha'labah ibn Amr ibn Amir ibn Harithah ibn Imri' al-Qays ibn Tha'labah ibn Mazin ibn al-Azd ibn al-Ghawth ibn Nabt ibn Malik ibn Zayd ibn Kahlan ibn Saba(Sheba) ibn Yashjub ibn Jarah ibn Joktan[7]

References 1.^ van Donzel, 1994, p. 483. 2.^ a b Crosby, 2007, pp. 74–75. 3.^ Prentiss, 2003, p. 172. 4.^ Sperl, 1989, p. 209. 5.^ Sperl et al., 1996, p. 138. 6.^ Thackston, 2001, p. 7 7.^ The line of descent of Sa'd ibn Ubadah from al-Khazraj is taken from the following sources: Al-Dhahabi (in Arabic). Siyar a`lam al-nubala' [The Lives of Noble Figures]. Ibn Ishaq (1998) [Composed 8th century]. Ibn Hisham. ed. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah. Jubilee series. trans. Alfred Guillaume. Oxford University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-19-577828-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=w7tuAAAAMAAJ&q=Ubada+Dulaym. 8.^ The line of descent of al-Khazraj from Qahtan is taken from the following source: Al-Tabari (1998) [Composed 10th century]. Tarikh al-Tabari [The History of al-Tabari]. SUNY series in Near Eastern studies. Volume XXXIX: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors. trans. Ella Landau-Tasseron. State University of New York Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-7914-2819-1.