Traditional date, disputed
A Himyarite king remembered as Tubba marches north, spares Yathrib and is said to be the first to clothe the Kaaba. The Quran names his people among nations destroyed.
Are they better or the people of Tubba' and those before them? We destroyed them, [for] indeed, they were criminals.
Quran 44:37
Source: Quran, Ibn Kathir ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
