Information for "SahihAlBukhari-017-001-7231"

Narrated Ibn Abbas: All the idols which were worshipped by the people of Noah were worshipped by the Arabs later on. As for the idol Wadd; it was worshipped by the tribe of Kalb at Daumat AlJandal; Suwa was the idol of the tribe of Murad and then by Ban; Ghutaif at AlJurf near Saba; Yauq was the idol of Hamdan; and Nasr was the idol of Himyr; the branch of Dhi AlKala. The names of the idols formerly belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah; and when they died Satan inspired their people to prepare and place idols at the places where they used to sit; and to call those idols by their names. The people did so; but the idols were not worshipped till those people who initiated them had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure; whereupon people began worshipping them.