The Book of Akbar 74: Noah (Nuh).

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Noah, the son of Lamech, was born under the Sign of Leo, 126 years after Adam’s death. He was strong in the ways of religion and firmly based on the foundation of justice. The story of his calling mankind to the worship of God, the disobedience of his people and the event of the Flood, etc., are well-known.
Historians have mentioned three floods. First, a flood which occurred before our Adam came into existence. Thus the very learned Shahrazuri says, “Adam belongs to the first cycle which commenced after the world had been devastated by the first flood.” The second flood was in the time of Noah and began at Kufa, in the oven of Noah's house. It lasted six months, and there were eighty persons in the Ark (kishti). On this account the place where they disembarked and settled was called the Eighty-Market, (Suqu-s-samanin). The third flood was in the time of Moses and was confined to the Egyptians.
Although romancing historians, in treating of the floods, make the last two also extend over the whole world, it is evident that this was not so, for in India, where they have books many thousand years old, there is not even a trace of these two floods. To be brief, in a short space of time, all the eighty occupants of the Ark died except seven, viz., Noah, his three sons, Japheth, Shem and Ham, and their wives. Noah assigned Syria, Mesopotamia, ‘Iraq and Khurasan to Shem; the western countries, and Abyssinia, India, Scinde and the Sudan to Ham ; and China, Sclavonia and Turkistan to Japheth. And in the opinion of historians, the aboriginal inhabitants of those countries at the present day, are descended from these three, and the lineage of mankind from the days of the Flood is derived from them. Noah died when he was either 1600 or 1300 years old. There are other stories too about his age, such as that he lived for 250 or 350 years after the Flood and that he was born either 126 years after Adam’s death or in Adam’s last days, and that he sat upon the throne of guidance, (i.e., became a prophet) when he was 50, or 150, or 250, or 350 years old, and that he was a guide to mortals for 950 years.
Ham had nine sons, viz., Hind, Sind, Zanj (Zanzibar), Nuba, Canaan, Kush, Qabt (Copt), Berber, Habsh (Abyssinia), and some have written that Ham had six sons. They omit Sind and Canaan and make Nuba the son of Habsh.
Shem also had nine sons, viz., (1) Arfakhshad, (2) Kayumars who is the progenitor of the kings of Persia, (3) Asud who founded Mada’in (the twin-cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon), etc., Ahwaz and Pahlu (? Peleg) are his sons and Pars is the son of Pahlu, (4) Ighan the father of Sham (Syria) and Rum (Asia Minor), (5) Buraj, of whom historians tell nothing except the name, (6) Lauz (? Lud) from whom the Pharaohs of Egypt are descended, (7) Elam who built the cities of Khuzistan ; Khurasan and Tambal are his sons, and 'Iraq is the son of Khurasan, and Kirman (Carmania) and Makran are sons of Tambal, (8) Aram from whom the tribe of ‘id is descended, (9) Buzar whose sons are Azarbaijan, Aran, Arman and Farghan.
Some say that Shem too had only six sons and omit Kayumars, Buraj and Laiiz. In short, there is much discrepancy about the descendants of those two (Shem and Ham).