Al-Nabi Shayth ( ar, ٱلنَّبِي شَيْت, An-Nabī Shayt, also ''Nabi Chit'' or ''Nabi Sheeth'' ( ar, ٱلنَّبِي شِيْت, An-Nabī Sheeth), literally "The
Prophet Seth
Seth,; el, Σήθ ''Sḗth''; ; "placed", "appointed") in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. A ...
"), is a village in the
Valley of Beqa' and
District of Ba'albek in
Lebanon. The village was called by that name because it is considered to contain the burial-site of
Seth
Seth,; el, Σήθ ''Sḗth''; ; "placed", "appointed") in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. A ...
the son of
Adam
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
. A mosque was built on the burial site and it contains the grave of Seth inside the mosque (a rival tradition placed Seth's tomb in the
Palestinian village of
Bashsheet
Bashshayt ( ar, بشيت), also Beshshayt, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located southwest of Ramla about half a mile from wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Is ...
, and likewise in the
Iraqi city of
Mosul).
The village is also the hometown of
Abbas al-Musawi, who was a leader of
Hezbollah
Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...
, and an influential
Twelver Shi'ite cleric. The village of ''Al-Nabi Sheeth'' is predominantly inhabited by people with the surnames Helbawi, Al-Moussawi, Hazimeh and Chokr.
History
Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217
CE) noted:
In 1838,
Eli Smith
Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (Whitney) Smith, and died January 11, 1857, in Beirut, Lebanon) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andov ...
noted ''En-Neby Sheeth'' as a "
Metawileh" village in the district of Baalbek.
On 22 December 1998 the
Israeli Air Force bombed a farm house in al-Nabi Shayth killing a woman and six children. The target had been an antenna belonging to Hizbollah’s ''Voice of the Oppressed'' radio station. Hizbollah responed by firing rockets into Northern Israel, injuring sixteen people. Two weeks later the IAF again tried to destroy the radio mast, injuring seven villagers.
[Middle East International] No 591, 15 January 1998 (sic) internal pages give correct year of publication: 1999; Michael Jansen p14. Second attack on 3 January 1999]
See also
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Nabi Habeel Mosque
Nabi Habeel Mosque ( ar, مَسْجِد ٱلنَّبِي هَابِيْل, Masjid An-Nabī Hābīl; tr, Nabi Habeel Camii), or "Mosque of the Prophet Abel", is a shrine dedicated to Habeel, located on the west mountains of Damascus, near the Z ...
,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Karak Nuh
Karak (also Kerak, Karak Nuh or Karak Noah) ( ar, كرك, Karak) is a village in the municipality of Zahle in the Zahle District of the Beqaa Governorate in eastern Lebanon. It is located on the Baalbek road close to Zahle. Karak contains a sar ...
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List of burial places of Abrahamic figures
The following is a list of burial places attributed to Abrahamic Religion, Abrahamic figures according to various religious and local traditions. The locations listed are not based on factual evidence, but rather locations mentioned in the text of ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Nabi Chit Localiban
Populated places in Baalbek District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon
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