I said:
The last of their kings from whom the throne was stripped was Yazdegerd, son of Shahrīyār, son of Abrawayz, son of Hormuz, son of Anūshīrwān. During his reign the great Īwān split apart, and his forefathers had held sovereignty for three thousand one-hundred and sixty-four years. Their first king was Gayūmarth (1), son of Umaym, son of Lāwidh, son of Sām, son of Noah.
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As for Satīḥ, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir states in his History (2) that he is al-Rabīʿ ibn Rabīʿah ibn Masʿūd ibn Māzin ibn Dhiʾb ibn ʿAdiyy ibn Māzin of al-Azd. Others say he is al-Rabīʿ ibn Masʿūd, and his mother was Ruwaymah (3) bint Saʿd ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ḥajūrī. Ibn ʿAsākir records additional lines of descent as well.
He adds: Satīḥ lived in al-Jābiyyah. Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī related: I heard the elders—Abū ʿUbaydah among them—say that he came after Luqmān ibn ʿĀd, was born during the Flood of al-ʿArim, and lived on into the reign of Dhū Nuwās—about thirty generations in all. His residence was in Bahrain. ʿAbd al-Qays claim he is one of them, while al-Azd claim likewise. Most ḥadīth scholars say he is of al-Azd, yet we truly do not know his exact lineage, though his own descendants declare (4) that he is indeed of al-Azd.
It is narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās that he said: “Nothing of the descendants of Adam resembled Satīḥ. He was merely flesh upon a board (5); he possessed no bone or sinew except in his head, his eyes, and the palms of his hands. He could be folded up like a garment, from his feet to his neck, and nothing in him moved save his tongue.”
Others said: when he became angry, he would swell up and sit upright.
Ibn ʿAbbās further related that Satīḥ once arrived in Mecca, where a group of its chieftains—among them ʿAbd Shams and ʿAbd Manāf, the sons of Quṣayy—went out to receive him. They tested him on several matters, and he answered truthfully. They then asked him about what would occur at the end of time, and he said: “Take this from me, by the inspiration God has granted me: O company of Arabs, you are now in your senescent age; your insight and that of the non-Arabs are alike. You have no knowledge and no understanding. From your progeny there will arise a dark-complexioned people (6)(7) who will seek every kind (8) of knowledge, will smash the idol, and will reach …”