Qudayd

قديد

A coastal town between Mecca and Medina — seat of the idol Manāt and of the Prophet ﷺ’s pact with Banu Ḍamra.

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Qudayd is a town on the coast between Mecca and Medina. In its district stood Manat, the idol of the Aws and Khazraj, and there the Prophet concluded the truce with Banu Dhamra.

The place

Manat stood on the sea shore in the Qudayd district between Mecca and Medina. The people of Yathrib, the people of Mecca and those who came on pilgrimage all venerated it 1.

In the year of the brotherhood, the Prophet stayed at Qudayd and concluded a truce with Banu Dhamra ibn Bakr ibn Abd Manat ibn Kinana, on condition that they would not help any enemy against him 2.

For young visitors

Qudayd is a town on the coast road between Mecca and Medina. The idol Manat stood there, and there the Prophet made peace with the tribe of Dhamra.

In the introduction to The Sealed Nectar

Among the oldest idols of the Arabs was Manat. It stood at al-Mushallal on the Red Sea coast, near Qudayd 3 4.

Connections

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Site of
Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi's raid on Banu al-Mulawwah at al-Kudayd
Origin of
Manāt

People and things also explored

Banu al-Mulawwah· Al-Harith ibn Malik ibn al-Barsa' al-Laythi· Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi· Jundab ibn Makith al-Juhani· Muhammad· al-Kudayd· Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi's raid on Banu al-Mulawwah at al-Kudayd· Manāt

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  2. al-Maghazi — al-Waqidi
  3. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.35
  4. Mukhtasar Sirat al-Rasul — Ibn Abd al-Wahhab , p.12
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islam.museum contributors. “Qudayd”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qudayd/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Banu al-Mulawwah

A clan of Kinana at al-Kudayd against whom the Prophet sent Ghalib ibn Abdullah al-Laythi; the detachment raided them before dawn, killed and drove off the herds, as Jundab ibn Makith relates.