George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discource (1734)

And also the Jewish,
The Jews, who fled in great numbers into Arabia from the fearful destruction of their country by the Romans, made proselytes of several tribes, those of Kenânah, al Hareth Ebn Caaba, and Kendah ¹ in particular, and in time became very powerful, and possessed of several towns and fortresses there. But the Jewish religion was not unknown to the Arabs, at least above a century before; Abu Carb Asad, taken notice of in the Korân ², who was king of Yaman, about 700 years before Mohammed, is said to have introduced Judaism among the idolatrous Hamyarites. Some of his successors also embraced the same religion, one of whom, Yusef, surnamed Dhu Nowâs ³, was remarkable for his zeal, and terrible persecution of all who would not turn Jews, putting them to death by various tortures, the most common of which was throwing them into a glowing pit of fire, whence he had the opprobrious appellation of the Lord of the pit. This persecution is also mentioned in the Korân ⁴.

And Christian.
Christianity had likewise made a very great progress among this nation, before Mohammed. Whether St. Paul preached in any part of Arabia, properly so called ⁵, is uncertain; but the persecutions, and disorders, which happened in the eastern church soon after the beginning of the third century, obliged great numbers of Christians to seek for shelter in that county of liberty; who being for the most part of the Jacobite communion, that sect generally prevailed among the Arabs ⁶. The principal tribes that embraced Christianity, were Hamyar, Ghassân, Rabiâ, Taghlab, Bahrâ, Tonûch ⁷, part of the tribes of Tay and Kodâa, the inhabitants of Najrân, and the Arabs of Hira ⁸. As to the two last, it may be observed, that those of Najrân became Christians in the time of Dhu Nowâs ⁹; and very probably, if the story be true, were some of those who were converted on the following occasion, which happened about that time, or not long before. The Jews of Hamyar, challenged some neighbouring Christians, to a publick disputation, which was held sub dio for three days, before the king and his nobility, and all the people; the disputants being Gregentius, bishop of Tephra (which I take to be Dhafâr) for the Christians, and Herbanus for the Jews. On the third day, Herbanus, to end the dispute, demanded that Jesus of Nazareth, if he were really living, and in heaven, and could hear the prayers of his worshippers, should appear from heaven in their fight, and they would