Yaghūth

يغوث

Yaghūth — a pre-Islamic Arabian idol.

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Summary

Yaghuth is one of the five idols of Noah's people that the Qur'an names. In al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's narration from al-Bukhari, Amr ibn Luhayy brought it out of Jeddah and handed it to the tribes 1 2.

Among the idols of Noah's people

Al-Raheeq al-Makhtum mentions that Amr ibn Luhayy had a jinn familiar who told him that the idols of Noah's people, Wadd, Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq and Nasr, were buried at Jeddah. He went there, unearthed them, and brought them to Tihama. When the pilgrimage season came, he gave them to the tribes, and they took them back to their homelands, until each tribe had an idol and then each house 1 2. The rites of its worship are covered in Idol worship in the Jahiliyya.

Not covered here

Yaghuth's place among Murad of Madhhij, in the data of this entry.

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Yaghuth is a very ancient idol from the time of Noah's people, which came to a tribe in Yemen.

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Murad

People and things also explored

The Day of al-Radm between Murad and Hamdan· Farwa ibn Musayk al-Muradi comes to the Prophet and embraces Islam· Madhhij· Farwa ibn Musayk al-Muradi· Qays ibn Makshuh al-Muradi· Murad· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· Intellectual invasion (al-ghazw al-fikri) in the Sheikh's view

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.35
  2. Sahih al-Bukhari , 1/222
  • Akhbar Makka — al-Azraqi
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The Day of al-Radm between Murad and Hamdan

A battle shortly before Islam between Murad and Hamdan in which Hamdan did as they wished with Murad and inflicted heavy losses; Hamdan was led by al-Ajda' ibn Malik according to Ibn Ishaq, by Malik ibn Harim al-Hamdani according to Ibn Hisham. Farwa ibn Musayk of Murad composed verses on it, and the Prophet asked him on his arrival whether what befell his people on the Day of al-Radm grieved him.