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The three sons of Nūḥ: Sām, Ḥām, and Yāfith

hakim:4006Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ghiyāth al-ʿAbdī > Jaʿfar b. Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṭayālisī > ʿAyyāsh b. al-Walīd al-Raqqām > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn > Samurah b. Jundub

that the Prophet ﷺ said, "Nūḥ had three children: Sām (Sam), Ḥām (Ham), and Yāfith (Japeth) the father of Romans."  

This ḥadīth has a ṣaḥīḥ chain but they (Bukhārī and Muslim) did not collect it.
الحاكم:٤٠٠٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ ثنا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ ثنا عَيَّاشُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الرَّقَّامُ ثنا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «وَلَدُ نُوحٍ ثَلَاثَةٌ سَامُ وَحَامُ وَيَافِثُ أَبُو الرُّومِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ صحيح

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Collected by Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī
tabarani:6873al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Hishām b. ʿAmmār > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Khulayd b. Daʿlaj And Saʿīd b. Bashīr > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The sons of Noah are three: Shem, Japheth, and Ham."  

الطبراني:٦٨٧٣حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ ثنا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ ثنا خُلَيْدُ بْنُ دَعْلَجٍ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «وَلَدُ نُوحٍ ثَلَاثَةٌ سَامٌ وَيَافِثُ وَحَامٌ»  

tabarani:15460[Chain 1] Mūsá b. Hārūn And Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá al-Sājī > Azhar b. Marwān al-Raqāshī [Chain 2] Ismāʿīl b. Numayl al-Khallāl al-Baghdādī > ʿAyyāsh b. al-Walīd al-Raqqām > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn And Samurah b. Jundub

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "Noah had three children: Sam, the father of the Arabs; Ham, the father of the Abyssinians; and Japheth, the father of the Romans."  

الطبراني:١٥٤٦٠حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ وَزَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى السَّاجِيُّ قَالَا ثنا أَزْهَرُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ الرَّقَاشِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ نُمَيْلٍ الْخَلَّالُ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ ثنا عَيَّاشُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الرَّقَّامُ قَالَا ثنا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ وَسَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ وُلِدَ لِنُوحٍ ثَلَاثٌ فَسَامٌ أَبُو الْعَرَبِ وَحَامٌ أَبُو الْحَبَشِ وَيَافِثٌ أَبُو الرُّومِ