Ayyub ibn Razah (Yutab)

أيوب بن رزاح (يوتاب)

Yutab — Job son of Razah — whom al-Mas'udi lists as second Yemenite king of Syria; after the Romans prevailed over his realm his people scattered through the lands 1.

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Ayyub ibn Razah, also called Yutab. Al-Mas'udi says that he was the second of those from Yemen to rule Syria after Faligh ibn Yaghur. He says that God mentioned his story through his prophet, and that then the Byzantines overcame their lands and they scattered through the lands. 2

His period needs an additional source to be determined.

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  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 425
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.425
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