أخبار المعمّرين من العرب والعجم مشهورة ومدوّنة في الكتب والتواريخ.

<p class='libAr' dir='rtl'>فقيل: طال العمر على لبد، وفيه يقول الأعشى: لنفسك إذ تختار سبعة أنسر إذا ما مضى نسر خلدت إلى نسر فعمر حتى خال أن نسوره خلود وهل يبقى النفوس على الدهر وقال لأدناهن إذ حل ريشه هلكت وأهلكت ابن عاد وما تدريExplanation: Therefore, in this regard it is mentioned that the age of so and so was as long as Labad; and Aasha [Arab poet] has also composed the following lines: When you had taken up seven eagles for yourself – and every time an eagle died, it continued to live in the eagle after him. It lived for so long that people thought that eagles lived forever. Was it possible to live forever in the past age? And with the last eagle, when its feathers fell off due to old age, it said: You died and also made Ibn Aad die and I don’t know what you did.