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{ وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمُ ٱلْبَاقِينَ }

and made his descendants the survivors thus all human beings are descended from him peace be upon him. He had three sons Shem Sām the ancestor of the Arabs the Persians and the Byzantines; Ham Hām the ancestor of the Negroes; and Japheth Yāfith the ancestor of the Turks the Khazar and the peoples of Gog and Magog and the inhabitants of such regions.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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