Note [édition originale] : The people of Tobba;]
viz. The
Hamyarites, whose kings had the title of
Tobba
3.
The
commentators tell us that the
Tobba here meant was very potent, and built
Samarcand, or, as others say, demolished it; and that he was a true believer,
but his subjects were infidels
1.
This prince seems to have been
Abu Carb Asaad, who flourished about
seven hundred years before
Mohammed, and embraced
Judaism, which religion he
first introduced into
Yaman (being the true religion at that time, inasmuch as
Christianity was not then promulgated), and was, for that cause probably,
slain by his own people
2.
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3
See the Prelim. Disc. §. I. p. 9.
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1
Al Beidawi, Jallalo’ddin.
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2
Al Jannabi. V. Poc. spec. p. 60.