Manāt

Summary

Manat is one of the oldest idols of the Arabs in the account of al-Raheeq al-Makhtum. It stood at al-Mushallal on the Red Sea coast near Qudayd, and together with al-Lat and al-Uzza it was among their greatest idols ¹ ².

On the order of the idols

The author notes that among their oldest idols was Manat. Then they took al-Lat in Ta'if, and then they took al-Uzza at Wadi Nakhla. Then shirk multiplied and idols multiplied in every part of the Hijaz, until each tribe had an idol and then each house ¹. The rites of its worship are covered in Idol worship in the Jahiliyya.

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The veneration of the Aws and the Khazraj for Manat, and its demolition at its entrances after the conquest.

For young visitors

Manat is an ancient idol on the sea coast between Mecca and Medina, which some Arabs worshipped before Islam.

Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi's raid on Banu al-Mulawwah at al-Kudayd

The Prophet sent Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi with a detachment to raid Banu al-Mulawwah at al-Kudayd; Jundab ibn Makith al-Juhani, who was in it, tells it: at Qudayd they seized al-Harith ibn Malik ibn al-Barsa' al-Laythi, who claimed he was going to embrace Islam, and bound him; Jundab served as lookout on a hill and a man of the camp shot him with two arrows, but he kept still; before dawn they raided, killed and drove off the herds, and when the pursuers reached Wadi Qudayd God sent a flood without a cloud that cut them off. The Muslims' watchword that night was 'amit, amit'.

At a glance

Summary

On the order of the idols

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Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi's raid on Banu al-Mulawwah at al-Kudayd