The Prophets Of Allah

Prophet Mohammed PBUH (Genealogy and Year of The Elephants)

We begin by talking about, really, the entire Arab race. Because this is how the books of seerah begin. Who exactly are the Arabs.

And there are many theories; and the fact of the matter is that: there is nothing that is, -quote unquote- scientific. These are all legends that the Arabs have -basically- transferred down, generation to generation. And this is the standard narrative.

The standard narrative goes that: the Arabs can be divided into two broad categories.

The first of them are the extinct Arabs (al-'Arabal Baaidah). They're gone. The extinct Arabs. And these are also called the Ancient Arabs. And these are the earliest civilizations known in the land of Arabia. The earliest human civilizations known. And the Qur'an mentioned some of them; such as: Thamud and 'Aad. And there were other tribes as well.

And so these civilizations, they no longer exist -obviously-; and their progeny, -according to the majority and dominant opinion- (and we'll come to another opinion), has been completely exterminated; that Allah SWT basically exterminated all of them. And these civilizations flourished five to six thousand years ago i. e. from the earliest dawn of the recorded civilization. And some of them were destroyed by Allah SWT, such as 'Aah and Thamud. And others were forced to evacuate or wiped out by war; so the point is: these are called the Ancient Arabs; and they're simply in the text books of history.

The second group of Arabs are called the remaining Arabs (al-'Arabal Baaqiyah); Those who remained. So we have the extinct Arabs (the Ancient), then we have the remaining Arabs (al-'Arabal Baaqiyah). And these Arabs are divided into two categories, okay? So these Arabs are divided into two categories:

The first of these are: the al-'Arab al-'Aaribah, or if you want to be in English: the Pure Arabs. 'The Arabs who were pure Arabs'.

And the second al-'Arabal Musta'ribah. The Arabs who became 'Arab; the Arabs who learned the Arabic language.

So far so clear?

So you have the original Arab (al-'Arabal 'Aaribah); then you have the Arabs who became Arab; the Arabs who took the Arabic language (al-'Arab al-Musta'ribah). And there are two figures (that the legend says) are the founders of each of these. These two figures are not brothers, obviously. They're two separate categories.

The first of them, al-'Arabal 'Aaribah, they say they are....~primarily they say~ 'this is Qahthaan'. Or some say his son Ya'rub. And from that, they say we get 'Arab'.

Ya'rub. "Those who were the descendants of Ya'rub; they became Arab."
And they say: "Ya'rub was the first who spoke the beginning of Arabic."
So they say: "Ya'rub spoke a language; they called it Ya'-'Arab. And his (basically) people were called 'Arabi (from this person Ya'rub, the son of Qahthaan)".

And they're also called Qahthaani Arabs. So his father is Qahthaan; so they say: "This is Qahthaani Arabs".

And these Arabs primarily were found in southern parts of Arabia; such as the ancient Yemeni civilizations. The ancient civilizations of Yemen. Who was Qahthaan? Qahthaan was one of the descendants of Saam. Who is Saam? Saam is the son of Nuh. And from Saam, we get the English term 'Semite'. Semite. So from Saam we get: "These people are Semites."

Now. Common legend; Biblical and even Hadith (there's a hadith that some scholars have said is authentic, some said is not authentic); there's a hadith in Tirmizi: our Prophet SAW said: "Saam is the father of the Arabs. And Yafith is the father of the Romans. And Haam is the father of the Africans." - this hadith is in Tirmizi.

And even the Bible has the exact same thing: that Nuh had (basically)...eventually there were three sons. And these three sons, from them all of the races came. Saam. Yafith, and Haam. And Saam is the father of the semite people. Yafith is the father of the Romans. And Haam is the father of the Africans. And this is the standard Biblical narrative; and it is also the standard Islamic narrative as well. Of course modern science does not accept any of this because they have their own theories.