Sirat Ibn Hisham 87
The bringing of idols from Syria to Makkah
[ جَلَبُ الْأَصْنَامِ مِنْ الشَّامِ إلَى مَكَّةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: أَنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ لُحَيٍّ خَرَجَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إلَى الشَّامِ فِي بَعْضِ أُمُورِهِ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ مَآبَ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْبَلْقَاءِ، وَبِهَا يَوْمَئِذٍ الْعَمَالِيقُ - وَهُمْ وَلَدُ عِمْلَاقٍ. وَيُقَالُ عِمْلِيقُ بْنُ لَاوِذْ بْنِ سَامَ بْنِ نُوحٍ - رَآهُمْ يَعْبُدُونَ الْأَصْنَامَ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: مَا هَذِهِ الْأَصْنَامُ الَّتِي أَرَاكُمْ تَعْبُدُونَ ؟ قَالُوا لَهُ: هَذِهِ أَصْنَامٌ نَعْبُدُهَا، فَنَسْتَمْطِرُهَا فَتُمْطِرُنَا، ونَسْتَنْصِرُهَا فَتَنْصُرُنَا، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: أَفَلَا تُعْطُونَنِي مِنْهَا صَنَمًا، فَأَسِيرَ بِهِ إلَى أَرْضِ الْعَرَبِ، فَيَعْبُدُوهُ ؟ فَأَعْطَوْهُ صَنَمًا يُقَالُ لَهُ هُبَلُ، فَقَدِمَ بِهِ مَكَّةَ، فَنَصَبَهُ وَأَمَرَ النَّاسَ بِعِبَادَتِهِ وَتَعْظِيمِهِ
Translation
✧ [The bringing of idols from Syria to Makkah] Ibn Hishām said: Some of the people of knowledge related to me that ʿAmr b. Luḥayy went out from Makkah to Syria on some of his business. When he arrived at Maʾāb in the land of al-Balqāʾ—where at that time were the ʿAmālīq, who are the offspring of ʿImlāq, and it is said ʿImlīq b. Lāwadh b. Sām b. Nūḥ—he saw them worshipping idols. He said to them: What are these idols that I see you worshipping? They said to him: These are idols that we worship; we seek rain from them and they give us rain, and we seek victory from them and they give us victory. He said to them: Will you not give me one of them as an idol, so that I may travel with it to the land of the Arabs and they may worship it? So they gave him an idol called Hubal. He arrived with it in Makkah, set it up, and commanded the people to worship and venerate it.
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