Companions of the Rass
[2] Muslim scholars related that the Companions of the Rass were a community in the Azerbaijan region.[citation needed] As the Quran narrates that it is a 'confirmation' of what came before, and in the 17th Chapter narrates the tale of the Fall of Jerusalem, any scholar of the Scriptures will know that Companions of the Rass from Chapter 25 verse 38 or 'Water Well' from Chapter 50 verse 12 refers to the followers of King Zedekiah whom took the prophet Jeremiah whom warned the King and People of Israel to repent before the fall of Jerusalem, but as the King's followers did not like his words or prophecies, captured him and lowered him into a Well/Cistern filled with mud.Other documents of Islamic literature give little information on the place or people of this particular community.[6] Modern day scholars such as Imad Zuhair Hafidh, Hikmat ibn Bashir ibn Yasin and Muhammad Sulaiman al-Ashqar, three professors of tafseer from Muhammad Sulaiman al-Ashqar has viewed that Ashab al-Rass or peoples of Rass were the peoples who lived during the time of Shuaib, a prophet of Islam.[7] There has been theories that People of the Well are ancestors of those now live in Russia or ancestors of modern day Russians who refer to themselves as "Ross" or Kievan Rus who inhabited modern day Ukraine.