The account of Tubbaʿ Abū Karib Tubbān Asʿad, king of Yemen, and his dealings with the people of Madinah; how he first intended to attack the Sacred House, then came to honor and exalt it, clothing it in robes—becoming the first to do so.

Ibn Isḥāq said: When Rabīʿah ibn Naṣr died, sovereignty over all Yemen reverted to Ḥassān son of Tubbān Asʿad Abū Karib—Tubbān Asʿad being the later Tubbaʿ—son of Kalkīkarab son of Zayd. Zayd was the first Tubbaʿ, the son of ʿAmr Dhū al-Adhʿār, son of Abraha Dhū al-Manār, son of al-Rāʾish, son of ʿAdī, son of Ṣayfī, son of Sabaʾ the Younger, son of Kaʿb Kahf al-ẓulm, son of Zayd, son of Sahl, son of ʿAmr, son of Qays, son of Muʿāwiya, son of Jusham, son of ʿAbd Shams, son of Wāʾil, son of al-Ghawth, son of Qaṭan, son of ʿArīb, son of Zuhayr, son of Anas, son of al-Hamaysaʿ, son of al-ʿAranjaj—al-ʿAranjaj is Ḥimyar—son of Sabaʾ the Elder, son of Yaʿrub, son of Yashjub, son of Qaḥṭān.

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām said: Sabaʾ was the son of Yashjub, son of Yaʿrub, son of Qaḥṭān.

Ibn Isḥāq also said: Tubbān Asʿad Abū Karib is the one who came to Madinah, led two Jewish rabbis back with him to Yemen, renovated the Sacred House (the Kaʿbah) and clothed it. His reign preceded that of Rabīʿah ibn Naṣr. When returning from a campaign in the eastern lands he chose to pass through Madinah. He had previously passed by it at the outset without molesting its people, leaving among them one of his sons, who was later assassinated. Thus he arrived at Madinah determined to lay it waste, annihilate its inhabitants, and cut down its date-palms. The people therefore gathered to confront him