Amr ibn Luhay, Brought idols to Makkah
In the hadithBrought idols to Makkah
Amr ibn Luhayعمرو بن لحي
The Quran gives no dateMakkah
The chief of Makkah who first changed the religion of Ibrahim and set up idols.
Amr ibn Luhay of Khuza'ah ruled Makkah after Jurhum. Tradition says he saw idols in Syria and brought them back, starting idol worship around the Kaaba, and invented the custom of setting animals free for idols. The Prophet ﷺ said he saw him in the Fire, dragging his intestines.
What does the Quran say?
What grew out of it?
Over the centuries, Makkah filled with 360 idols until the Prophet ﷺ cleared them in 630.
The lesson
One leader's innovation can mislead a people for generations.
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Source: hadith · Wikipedia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani