The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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and the Majestic) for one hundred and twenty years, but they disobeyed
him and called him a liar. Allah ordered him to make the Ark.
He was six hundred years old when he got on it and many people
drowned. Nul:i ('alayhis-sakim) stayed alive for three hundred and fifty
years after that. The total number of years between Adam and Nul:i
was two thousand and two hundred years. The flood drifted the
idols to the land of Juddah and when the water receded the wind
brought sand to cover the idols until it covered it.'
'Amr lbn Lul:iayywas a priest with thenicknameAbii Thumamah,
and he used to communicate with the Jinns. One of them told him:
depart from Tihamah quickly with fortune and safety and get to the
shore of Jeddah where you will find statues that have been well made.
Bring them back to Tihamah without fear and ask the Arabs to worship
them and you will be obeyed. So he arrived to the shore of
Jeddah and wiped the sand off the statues and brought them back
to Tihamah. When the season of pilgrimage arrived, 'Amr called all
Arabs to worship the statues. 'Awf Ibn 'Athrah lbn Zayd Ibn Al­
Lat accepted his call and took Waddwith him. He set it in the valley
of Qura in Dumah al-Jandal. He named his son 'Abd Wadd, and he
was the first to be given this name. 'Awf made his son, 'Amir, the
custodian of Wadd. Custodianship remained in the offspring of 'Awf
until Islam came.
Malik Ibn J:Iarithah said that he saw the statue of Wadd. He said
that his father used to send him with milk and tell him: "give to your
lord to drink." He said: "I later saw Khalid lbn al-Walid (ratfiyAlldhu
'anhu) smashing it to small pieces."
Allah's Messenger () sent Khalid lbn al-Walid (rmffyAlkihu 'anhu)
after the battle of Tabiik to destroy this idol, but the children of
'Abd Wadd and the children of 'Amir tried to prevent him from
doing so. He fought and defeated them then brought down the statue
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