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of the Muslim scholars and the foremost Qur’anic commentators, who add that the figures cited in the Qur’an in Surat Ya-Sin were not disciples at all; they lived before the Messiah, and their names are other than those of the disciples. As Muhammad ibn Ishaq relates:
Salamah ibn al-Fadl said, “Part of the account of the Man of Ya-Sin—as Muhammad ibn Ishaq narrated to me from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Kaʿb, and from Wahb ibn Munabbih—is that he was a resident of Antioch named Ḥabīb. He worked in silk, was chronically ill, leprosy having quickly overtaken him, and his home stood beside one of the city gates.”
الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَأَئِمَّةِ الْمُفَسِّرِينَ وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ الْمَذْكُورِينَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ فِي سُورَةِ يس لَيْسُوا مِنَ الْحَوَارِيِّينَ بَلْ كَانُوا قَبْلَ الْمَسِيحِ وَسَمَّوْهُمْ بِأَسْمَاءِ غَيْرِ الْحَوَارِيِّينَ ; كَمَا ذَكَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ:
سَلَمَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ كَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ صَاحِبِ يس فِيمَا حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَعَنْ كَعْبٍ وَعَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ أَنَّهُ كَانَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ أَنْطَاكِيَةَ وَكَانَ اسْمُهُ حَبِيبًا وَكَانَ يَعْمَلُ الْحَرِيرَ وَكَانَ رَجُلًا سَقِيمًا قَدْ أَسْرَعَ فِيهِ الْجُذَامُ وَكَانَ مَنْزِلُهُ عِنْدَ بَابٍ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الْمَدِينَةِ،