وروى من ذكر أخبار العرب أن لقمان بن عاد كان أطول الناس عمرا وأنه عاش ثلاثة آلاف سنة وخمسمائة سنة، ويقال إنه عاش عمر سبعة أنسر وكان يأخذ فرخ النسر الذكر فيجعله في الجبل فيعيش النسر ما عاش، فإذا مات أخذ آخر فرباه حتى كان آخرها لبد، وكان أطولها عمرا،
H 87 - Luqman bin Aad lived the longest and he lived for 3500 years. It is said that he lived with seven eagles in such a manner that he used to catch an eagle chick and rear it under his care on the mountain till it became old and died. Then he took up another chick and trained it till the seventh eagle, which was named as Labad and it had a longer lifespan than others.
<p class='libAr' dir='rtl'>فقيل: طال العمر على لبد، وفيه يقول الأعشى: لنفسك إذ تختار سبعة أنسر إذا ما مضى نسر خلدت إلى نسر فعمر حتى خال أن نسوره خلود وهل يبقى النفوس على الدهر وقال لأدناهن إذ حل ريشه هلكت وأهلكت ابن عاد وما تدريExplanation: Therefore, in this regard it is mentioned that the age of so and so was as long as Labad; and Aasha [Arab poet] has also composed the following lines: When you had taken up seven eagles for yourself – and every time an eagle died, it continued to live in the eagle after him. It lived for so long that people thought that eagles lived forever. Was it possible to live forever in the past age? And with the last eagle, when its feathers fell off due to old age, it said: You died and also made Ibn Aad die and I don’t know what you did.
