Prophet Shu'aib Syu'ib

Lived for 882 Years

According to the Islamic tradition brought down in Qisas Al-Anbiya ("Stories of the Prophets"), Nabi Shu'aib was the great grandson of Abraham's son Midian. This would mean that Nabi Shuaib is NOT the same person as biblical prophet Jethro, because they would be too far apart in time.

Source 1: Wikipedia: Shuaib.

Source 2: It's Islam: Prophet Shoaib.

Source 3: ahl-ul-bayt.org: The Prophet Jethro (SHUAIB).

The commentators of the Koran identify Shuʿayb with the father-in-law of Moses (Jethro), whom Muhammad mentions as living in Midian (Sura 28:21–27). In another sura (26:176–89) it is related that Shuʿayb was sent as a prophet and that he rebuked the inhabitants of al-Ayka ("the people of the thicket"), while in other suras he rebuked his fellow Midianites (7:83–91; 11:85–98). Their attitude toward him was a negative one, just as that of other tribes toward the prophets who were sent to them (Sura 11:93). The legends of the prophets relate many more details about the sojourn of Moses in the house of his father-in-law, his marriage with Zipporah, etc.

IN ISLAM: Thaʿlabī, Qiṣaṣ (1356 AH), 146–8; Kisā'ī, Qiṣaṣ, ed. by I. Eisenberg (1922), 190–4; H. Speyer, Biblische Erzaehlungen… (1961), 251–4; Ḥ.Z.(J.W.) Hirschberg, Religion in the Middle East, 2 (1969), 350 and passim. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: K. van der Toorn, in: DDD, 910–19; W. Propp, Exodus 1–18 (AB; 1998), 630; A. Rippin, "Shuʿayb," in: EIS2, 9 (1997), 491 (incl. bibl.).