Yafith ibn Nuh (Japheth)

Yafith (Japheth) adalah seorang son of Nabi Nuh AS who boarded the ark with ayahnya and survived the flood. He adalah part of the klasik Islamic genealogical tradisi documented by para ulama including Ibn Kathir, al-Tabari, and others drawing on the history of the nations. Like saudaranyas, he adalah not dinamai in Al-Al-Qur'an but adalah established in Islamic historis literature as one of the three progenitors of post-flood humanity. ulama Islamly tradisi — drawing in part from the Torah-based genealogies that kaum Muslimin accept with appropriate ulamaly scrutiny — identifies Yafith as an ancestor of peoples to the north and east of the Arabian peninsula, including the Turks (identified with Yafith's descendant Yafur or Gomer), the Slavic peoples, the Greeks (Yavan), and other northern nations. Ibn Kathir writes that the majority of the people of the east and north come from his line. Some tradisis also connect the Gog and Magog (Ya'juj and Ma'juj) to this lineage, though these adalah peoples whose detailed story adalah reserved for their own entries. Yafith adalah presented in tradisi Islam as a believer who honored ayahnya and survived the flood, carrying forward his portion of humanity's post-flood renewal.