It is related that Manshaj, one of the children of Yâfuth,
had two sons named Yajûj and Majûj; and since every one
of his sons had obtained a country, these two latter ones
proceeded to the far East, to the vicinity of the region
where the wall of Zulqarneen stands at present. There
they established themselves and begat a numerous progeny,
since, according to the opinion of A’bdullah Bin O’mar,
u. w. b., etc., mankind are divided into ten parts, nine of
which are the descendants of Yajûj and Majûj. It is likewise
recorded in histories that Yajûj and Majûj were two
nations, each of which was divided into one hundred
tribes, and that one man of these never died until he
beheld one thousand children of his descendants. Their
whole number was divided into three species: of the first
kind were those whose stature was one hundred and twenty
cubits high, but the breadth of their bodies was less; of the
second kind were those whose bodies measured one hundred
and twenty cubits in height and as many in breadth; of
the third kind were those whose dwarfish bodies varied
in height from one span to four cubits; these last were
called long-ears. The elephant and rhinoceros were
unable to cope with them, neither could any rapacious
animals escape from them when they met them. One of
their abominable customs is, that when a man dies among
them they devour his body. Their food, however, mostly
consists of crabs, which abound in that country. They
have neither a law nor a religion, know neither God nor
man, and live like animals.