The Account of Rabiʿah ibn Naṣr ibn Abī Ḥārithah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿĀmir al-Lakhmī—already mentioned above. This, says Ibn Isḥāq, is his lineage. Al-Suhaylī records it somewhat differently, while the genealogists of Yemen maintain that his name was Naṣr ibn Rabiʿah, that is, Rabiʿah ibn Naṣr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Namārah ibn Lakhm.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār supplies yet another pedigree: Rabiʿah ibn Naṣr ibn Mālik ibn Shaʿwadh ibn Mālik ibn ʿUjam ibn ʿAmr ibn Namārah ibn Lakhm. Lakhm, they add, was the brother of Judhām. He received the name “Lakhm” because he laḫama—slapped—his brother on the cheek; in retaliation the brother bit his hand and severed it, and so was called Judhām (“the mutilated one”).

Rabiʿah was counted among the Tubbaʿ kings of Ḥimyar. His celebrated encounter with the two soothsayers Shiqq and Satiḥ includes their forewarning of the advent of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

As for Satiḥ, his personal name was Rabīʿ ibn Rabīʿah ibn Masʿūd ibn Māzin ibn Dhiʾb ibn ʿAdī ibn Māzin ibn Ghassān. Shiqq, on the other hand, was the son of Saʿb ibn Yashkur ibn Ruhm ibn Afrak ibn Qusr ibn ʿAbqar ibn Anmār ibn Nizār—though some assert he was Anmār ibn Arāsh ibn Laḥyān ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Ghawth ibn Nābit ibn Mālik ibn Zayd ibn Kahlan ibn Sabaʾ.

It is said that Satiḥ had no limbs; rather, he resembled a flattened mass with his face located on his chest. When angered, his body would swell and he would manage to sit upright. Shiqq, for his part, was half a man. Some hold that Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī was from his line.

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