Tarikh (al-Tabari) 143
The story of Abraham the Friend (peace and blessings be upon him)
وَشُعَيْبٌ نَبِيُّهُمْ هُوَ ابْنُ ميكيلَ بْنِ يَشْجَنَ ذَكَرَهُ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: وَيُقَالُ لَهُ بِالسُّرْيَانِيَّةِ: بَثْرُونُ. وَفِي هَذَا نَظَرٌ وَيُقَالُ: شُعَيْبُ بْنُ يشجنَ بْنِ لَاوِي بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ، وَيُقَالُ: شُعَيْبُ بْنُ ثَوِيبَ بْنِ عَبَقَا بْنِ مَدْيَنَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ. وَيُقَالُ: شُعَيْبُ بْنُ صِيفُورَ بْنِ عَبَقَا بْنِ ثَابِتِ بْنِ مَدْيَنَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ. وَقَرَأَتْهُ بِخَطِّ أَبِي الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْمُنَادِي عَلَى خِلَافِ هَذَا النَّسَبِ وَهَذَا الِاسْمِ، قَالَ: هُوَ شُعَيْبُ بْنُ نُوبَبَ -بِبَاءَيْنِ مَعَ سُكُونِ الْوَاوِ- بْنِ رَعِيلَ بْنِ عَيْفَا بْنِ مَدْيَنَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ. وَقِيلَ: غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ فِي نَسَبِهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ: وَيُقَالُ: جَدَّتُهُ وَيُقَالُ: أُمُّهُ بِنْتُ لُوطٍ وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ آمَنَ بِإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَهَاجَرَ مَعَهُ وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ دِمَشْقَ. وَعَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: شُعَيْبٌ وَبَلْعَمُ مِمَّنْ آمَنَ بِإِبْرَاهِيمَ يَوْمَ أُحْرِقَ بِالنَّارِ، وَهَاجَرَا مَعَهُ إِلَى الشَّامِ فَزَوَّجَهُمَا بِنْتَيْ لُوطٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ. ذَكَرَهُ ابْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ، وَفِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ نَظَرٌ أَيْضًا، وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ. وَذَكَرَ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْبِرِّ فِي " الِاسْتِيعَابِ " فِي تَرْجَمَةِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْعَنَزِيِّ: قَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَأَسْلَمَ، وَانْتَسَبَ إِلَى عَنَزَةَ فَقَالَ: نِعْمَ الْحَيُّ عَنَزَةُ مَبْغِيٌّ عَلَيْهِمْ، مَنْصُورُونَ، قَوْمُ شُعَيْبٍ وَأَخْتَانُ مُوسَى. فَلَوْ صَحَّ هَذَا لَدَلَّ عَلَى أَنَّ شُعَيْبًا صِهْرُ مُوسَى، وَأَنَّهُ مِنْ قَبِيلَةٍ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ الْعَارِبَةِ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ: عَنَزَةُ لَا أَنَّهُمْ مِنْ عَنَزَةَ بْنِ أَسَدِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نِزَارِ بْنِ مَعْدِّ بْنِ عَدْنَانَ فَإِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ بَعْدَهُ بِدَهْرٍ طَوِيلٍ، وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ. وَفِي حَدِيثِ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الَّذِي فِي صَحِيحِ ابْنِ حِبَّانَ فِي ذِكْرِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالرُّسُلِ قَالَ: أَرْبَعَةٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ؛ هُودٌ، وَصَالِحٌ، وَشُعَيْبٌ، وَنَبِيُّكَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ. وَكَانَ بَعْضُ السَّلَفِ يُسَمِّي شُعَيْبًا خَطِيبَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ، يَعْنِي لِفَصَاحَتِهِ وَعُلُوِّ عِبَارَتِهِ وَبَلَاغَتِهِ فِي دِعَايَةِ قَوْمِهِ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ بِرِسَالَتِهِ، وعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا ذَكَرَ شُعَيْبًا قَالَ: ذَاكَ خَطِيبُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ.
Translation
✧ Shuʿayb their prophet was the son of Mīkīl b. Yashjan. Ibn Isḥāq mentioned this and said: He is called in Syriac: Bathrūn. There is some question about this. It is also said: Shuʿayb b. Yashjan b. Lāwī b. Yaʿqūb, and it is said: Shuʿayb b. Thawīb b. ʿAbaqā b. Madyan b. Ibrāhīm. It is also said: Shuʿayb b. Ṣīfūr b. ʿAbaqā b. Thābit b. Madyan b. Ibrāhīm. I read it in the handwriting of Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Munādī contrary to this lineage and this name; he said: He is Shuʿayb b. Nūbab—with two bāʾs and a quiescent wāw—b. Raʿīl b. ʿAyfā b. Madyan b. Ibrāhīm. Other things about his lineage have been said. Ibn ʿAsākir said: It is also said: His grandmother, or his mother, was a daughter of Lūṭ, and he was among those who believed in Ibrāhīm, migrated with him, and entered Damascus with him. On the authority of Wahb b. Munabbih, who said: Shuʿayb and Balʿam were among those who believed in Ibrāhīm on the day he was burned in the fire, and they migrated with him to Syria, and he married them to the two daughters of Lūṭ ﷺ. Ibn Qutaybah mentioned this, and in all of this there is also some question, and God knows best. Abū ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned in al-Istīʿāb, in the entry for Salamah b. Saʿīd al-ʿAnazī: He came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and accepted Islam, and he traced his lineage to ʿAnazah, so he said: Excellent is the tribe of ʿAnazah, wronged against them, they are victorious, the people of Shuʿayb and the in-laws of Mūsā. If this were authentic, it would indicate that Shuʿayb was the father-in-law of Mūsā and that he was from a tribe of the original Arabs called ʿAnazah, not from ʿAnazah b. Asad b. Rabīʿah b. Nizār b. Maʿadd b. ʿAdnān, for those came a long time after him, and God knows best. In the ḥadīth of Abū Dharr, which is in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Ibn Ḥibbān, in the mention of the prophets and messengers, he said: Four are from the Arabs: Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, Shuʿayb, and your prophet, O Abū Dharr. Some of the early scholars used to call Shuʿayb 'the orator of the prophets,' meaning because of his eloquence, the loftiness of his expression, and his rhetorical skill in calling his people to faith in his message. From Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: When the Messenger of God ﷺ mentioned Shuʿayb, he would say: That is the orator of the prophets.
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