Sa'd () was a god of fortune in

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revered by the

Banu Kinanah Kinana () is an Arab tribe based around Mecca in the Tihama coastal area and the Hejaz mountains. The Quraysh of Mecca, the tribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, was an offshoot of the Kinana. A number of modern-day tribes throughout the Arab w ...

tribe.

Attestations

His cult image was a tall stone and was situated in the desert. According to Ibn Ishaq, a man once visited this cult image with his many camels for blessings.''Idols of Pre-Islamic Arabia'', Yasin al-Jibouri Upon reaching the idol, which was blood-stained by the animal offerings of the time, the camels ran away. Angered, the man threw a stone at the idol, hoping that

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will not bless the idol, and set out to find them. After all camels are gathered, he declared:

We came to Sa`d so he may unite us together, But Sa`d disunited us, so we have nothing to do with Sa`d. Is Sa`d anything but a stone in a plain of land That calls for neither misguidance nor guidance?

The fifth

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narrated to his companion, Abdul Raheem al-Qaseer, that following the death of

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, the people of Arabia reverted to old habits, leaving the "Helpers" (supporters of Islam) in isolation. They pledged allegiance to Sa'd, shouting slogans from the days of

Jahiliyyah In Islamic salvation history, the ''Jāhiliyyah'' (Age of Ignorance) is an era of pre-Islamic Arabia as a whole or only of the Hejaz leading up to the lifetime of Muhammad. The Arabic expression (meaning literally “the age or condition of i ...

: "O Sa'd, you are the hope, and you are the vessel, and the solution!"

References

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