RECORD OF ANÛSH [ENOS], THE SON OF SHETH.

He is also called Anûs; historians differ whether his mother belonged to the human species or to that of the genii; it is recorded in the book entitled ‘Arâyis’ that she was a huri,* whom Allah—w. n. b. e.—had created without the intervention of a father or mother, and had presented to Sheth. When the time of Sheth’s death approached, he enjoined Anûsh to take the reins of solving and knotting human affairs into his hands. In the ‘Nizâm-ut-tavârikh’ it is stated that Anûsh lived six hundred years, and was a good sovereign. Tabari says that he lived nine hundred years.