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Summary
Ya'uq 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
Ya'uq's place among Hamdan in Yemen, in the data of this entry.
For young visitors
Ya'uq is a very ancient idol from the time of Noah's people, which came to the tribe of Hamdan in Yemen.
Connections
- Held by
- Banu Hamdan
- Made in
- Yemen
People and things also explored
The First Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen· Banu Hamdan· Yemen· Nasr· Christianity in Arabia before Islam· Judaism in Arabia before Islam· The Second Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen· Ali ibn Abi Talib's expeditions to Yemen (twice)
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.35
- Sahih al-Bukhari , 1/222
- Akhbar Makka — al-Azraqi
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islam.museum contributors. “Yaʿūq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/yauq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.