Tarikh (al-Tabari) 144
The story of Abraham the Friend (peace and blessings be upon him)
كَانَ أَهْلُ مَدْيَنَ وَهُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْأَيْكَةِ. وَالْأَيْكَةُ: شَجَرٌ مُلْتَفٌّ قَوْمًا عَرَبًا يَسْكُنُونَ مَدِينَتَهُمْ مَدْيَنَ الَّتِي هِيَ قَرْيَةٌ مِنْ أَرْضِ مُعَانٍ مِنْ أَطْرَافِ الشَّامِ مِمَّا يَلِي نَاحِيَةَ الْحِجَازِ قَرِيبًا مِنْ بُحَيْرَةِ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ، وَكَانُوا بَعْدَهُمْ بِمُدَّةٍ قَرِيبَةٍ، وَمَدْيَنُ قَبِيلَةٌ عُرِفَتْ بِهِمُ الْمَدِينَةُ، وَهُمْ مِنْ بَنِي مَدْيَنَ بْنِ مديَانَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْخَلِيلِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ وَكَانَتْ مَدْيَنُ دَارَ شُعَيْبٍ وَالْأَيْكَةُ خَلْفَ مَدَيْنَ. وَكَانَ اسْمُهُ الْقَدِيمُ يَبْرُونَ، هَذَا نَقَلْتُهُ مِنْ خَطِّ ابْنِ الْمُنَادِي. وَقَالَ قَوْمٌ: يَثْرُونُ بِيَاءِ وَبَعْدَهَا ثَاءٌ. وَقَالَ الشَّرْقِيُّ بْنُ الْقَطَّامِيِّ -وَكَانَ عَالِمًا بِالْأَنْسَابِ-: هُوَ يَثْرُونُ بِالْعِبْرَانِيَّةِ، وَشُعَيْبٌ بِالْعَرَبِيَّةِ. قَالَ أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْمُنَادِي: وَكَانَ أَبُو جَادٍ، وَهَوَّازُ، وَحُطِّي، وَكَلَمُونُ، وَسَعْفَصُ، وَقُرَيْشَاتُ بَنِي الْأَمْحَضِ بْنِ جَنْدَلِ بْنِ يَعْصُبَ بْنِ مَدْيَنَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مُلُوكًا. وَكَانَ أَبُو جَادٍ مَلِكَ مَكَّةَ وَمَا وَالَاهَا مِنْ تِهَامَةَ، وَكَانَ هَوَّازُ وَحُطِّي مَلِكَيْ وَجٍّ، وَهُوَ الطَّائِفُ. وَكَانَ سَعْفَصُ وَقُرَيْشَاتُ مَلِكَيْ مَدْيَنَ، ثُمَّ خَلَفَهُمْ كَلَمُونُ. وَكَانَ عَذَابُ يَوْمِ الظُّلَّةِ فِي مُلْكِهِ، فَقَالَتْ حَالِفَةُ بِنْتُ كَلَمُونَ - وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: أُخْتُ كَلَمُونَ- تَرِثِيهِ: كَلَمُونُ هَدَّ رُكْنِي هُلْكُهُ وَسْطَ الْمَحَلَّهْ سَيِّدُ الْقَوْمِ أَتَاهُ الْـ ـحَتْفُ نَارًا وَسْطَ ظُلَّهْ كُوِيتُ نَارًا فَأَضْحَتْ دَارُهُمْ كَالْمُضْمَحِلَّهْ
Translation
✧ The people of Madyan were the Companions of the Thicket. Al-Aykah (the Thicket) is intertwined trees. They were an Arab people dwelling in their city Madyan, which is a village in the land of Muʿān on the outskirts of Syria, on the side toward the Hijaz, near the lake of the people of Lot. They came after them by a short period. Madyan is a tribe after which the city was named, and they are from the Banū Madyan b. Madyān b. Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl (peace and blessings be upon him). Madyan was the home of Shuʿayb, and al-Aykah was behind Madyan. His ancient name was Yabrūn. This I copied from the handwriting of Ibn al-Munādī. Some people said: Yathrūn, with a yāʾ and after it a thāʾ. Al-Sharqī b. al-Qaṭāmī—and he was learned in genealogies—said: He is Yathrūn in Hebrew, and Shuʿayb in Arabic. Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Munādī said: Abū Jād, Hawwāz, Ḥuṭṭī, Kalamūn, Saʿfaṣ, and Qurayshāt, the Banū al-Amḥaḍ b. Jandal b. Yaʿṣub b. Madyan b. Ibrāhīm, were kings. Abū Jād was king of Makkah and the parts of Tihāmah adjoining it. Hawwāz and Ḥuṭṭī were kings of Wajj, which is al-Ṭāʾif. Saʿfaṣ and Qurayshāt were kings of Madyan, then Kalamūn succeeded them. The punishment of the Day of the Shadow took place during his reign. Ḥālifah bt. Kalamūn—and in one narration: the sister of Kalamūn—said, elegizing him: Kalamūn—his destruction shattered my pillar amid the settlement; the lord of the people, death came to him as fire amid a shadow; I was seared by fire, and their abode became like the vanishing mirage.
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