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| | A Comprehensive Commentary of the Qur'an [Section 1] |
 | | to which Yarab the son of Qahtan, the father of the ancient Arabs, gave his name, and where, some ages after, dwelt Ismail the son of Abraham by Hagar. |
 | | The Arabians were for some centuries under the government of the descendants of Qahtan; Yarab, one of his sons, founding the kingdom of Yaman, and Jorham, another of them, that of Hijaz. |
 | | Jorham the son of Qahtan reigned in Hijaz, where his posterity kept the throne till the time of Ismail; but on his marrying the daughter of Mudad, by whom he had twelve sons, Qidar, one of them, had the crown resigned to him by his uncles the Jorhamites |
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