The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Five: Devil's Deception in Matters of Creed (al- 'aqd'id) and Religion
and smashed it. On that day he slew one of the Banu 'Abd Wadd
name Qatan lbn Shurayh. His mother when he had been slain came
forward and said:
That thing, Love*, we see, persists not;
Fate destroys and wealth resist not;
Nor doth fate the chamois spare
Spite of mother's tender care
Then she said:
0 gatherer of entails and of liver on this earth
Would that thy mother ne'er had born and ne'er been given birth!
Al-KalbI said: I asked Malik lbn I:Iarithah to describe the statue of
Wadd for me in detail as if I were looking at it. He said: "He was as
large a man as could be. He had two robes engraved on him, one
was on his top part of his body and the other on his lower part. He
had a sword on his side, a bow on his shoulder and a spear with a
banner attached to it. He also had a sack with his arrows in it.
The tribe of Muqar lbn Nizar also accepted the call of 'Amr lbn
LuJ::iayy so he gave the statue Suwd' to al-I:Jarith lbn Tamim. He set
it in the land of Ruhat, so the remaining members of Muqar
worshiped the statue. One of the Arabs said:
You see them station around their prince,
as Hudayl take station round Suwa;
Offerings from the treasures of every shepherd are
all day flung down at his side.
And the tribe of Mithhij also accepted the call of 'Amr, so he gave
Yaghuth to An'am lbn 'Amr al-MuradL He set it in Akamah, Yeman,
• The name Wadd means Love, for which synonym is used here.
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