rabiah's horses 



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with Rabiah-al-Faras. (The horse is first mentioned in the 

 Bible 1702 B.C.) 



' So that more than a thousand years before Christ, history 

 not only records, that horses were in Arabia, but specifies 

 a certain class — the horses of Rabiah's ancestors ; and 

 Salaman, the direct ancestor of Rabiah, whose fine Arabian 

 mares founded the select family of " Al-Khamseh," was of 

 the same number of descents from the patriarch Abraham 

 as Kezron, the grandson of Judah, who flourished about 

 the year 1635 b.c, so that an authentic family of horses 



