Al-Nabi Shayth ٱلنَّبِي شَيْت ٱلنَّبِي شِيْت Nabi Chit | |
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 Mosque of the Prophet Seth in the village of the same name | |
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| Coordinates:33°52′20″N36°06′46″E / 33.87222°N 36.11278°E /33.87222; 36.11278 | |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Baalbek-Hermel |
| District | Baalbek[1] |
| Elevation | 4,000 ft (1,220 m) |
Al-Nabi Shayth (Arabic:ٱلنَّبِي شَيْت,romanized: An-Nabī Shayth,lit.ProphetSeth) is a village in easternLebanon, located in theBeqaa Valley[2] andBaalbek District.[1] The village's name comes from the considered burial-site ofSeth the son ofAdam. 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 thePalestinian village ofBashsheet, and likewise in theIraqi city ofMosul).[3] The village is also the hometown of former leader and co-founder ofHezbollah,Abbas al-Musawi, as well as the hometown of other senior Hezbollah leaders such as the lateFuad Shukr. The village ofAl-Nabi Sheeth is predominantly inhabited by people with the surnames Helbawi, Al-Moussawi, Hazimeh and Chokr.[4]
Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217CE) noted:
the two graves of Seth andNoah [..] are in theBika', and two days' journey fromDamascus. One who measured the tomb of Sheeth (Seth), reported to us that it was 40fathoms (ba') long, and thetomb of Nuh (Noah) was 30. The tomb of Noah's son lies side-by-side with that ofNoah. There is a building over the tombs, and anendowment for charitable purposes.
— Ibn Jubayr[2]
In 1838,Eli Smith notedEn-Neby Sheeth as a "Metawileh" village in the district of Baalbek.[1]
On 22 December 1998 theIsraeli 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'sVoice of the Oppressed radio station. Hizbollah responded by firing rockets into Northern Israel, injuring sixteen people. Two weeks later the IAF again tried to destroy the radio mast, injuring seven villagers.[5] On April 14, 2024, the IDF carried out an airstrike on the settlement, claiming that they were targeting a Hezbollah run weapons manufacturing site.[6]
Capital:Baalbek | ||
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