Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, from Qatādah, from al-Ḥasan, from Samurah ibn Jundub, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Sām is the father of the Arabs, Yāfith is the father of the Romans, and Ḥām is the father of the Abyssinians." (1)

This is a ḥasan ḥadīth. It is also said: Yāfath, Yāfith, and Yafath.

144 - Chapter on the Virtue of the Non-Arabs

4274 - Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ narrated to us, saying: Yaḥyā ibn Ādam narrated to us, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, who said: Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, the freed slave of ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth, narrated to us, saying: I heard Abū Hurayrah say: The non-Arabs were mentioned before the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "I am more confident in them — or in some of them — than I am in you, or in some of you." (2)

This is a gharīb ḥadīth; we do not know it except from the narration of Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh. And this Ṣāliḥ is called Ṣāliḥ ibn Mihrān, the freed slave of ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth.

4275 - ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, saying: Thawr ibn Zayd al-Dīlī narrated to me, from Abū al-Ghayth ————————————————————————————
(1) Its chain is weak; al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī is well-known for tadlīs, and he did not explicitly state that he heard this ḥadīth from Samurah.
(2) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, the freed slave of ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth.