All of these jāhiliyyah religions—whether of later human invention or once-revealed but now abrogated—became forms of jāhiliyyah with the advent of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Although in ordinary speech the term is usually restricted to the condition of the pre-Islamic Arabs, its essential meaning is the same in every case.
Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim relate, through Nāfiʿ from Ibn ʿUmar, that:
“When the people encamped with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at al-Ḥijr, the land of Thamūd, they drew water from its wells and used it to knead their dough. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered them to pour out the water they had collected, to feed the dough to their camels, and to take water only from the well that the she-camel used to frequent.”
Al-Bukhārī also reports, through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār from Ibn ʿUmar, that “When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) halted at al-Ḥijr during the Tabūk expedition he forbade them to drink from …” (the report continues).
(1) MS A reads: jamiʿan (“all of them”).
(2) MS B reads: aw mansukhuha (“or its abrogated portion”).
(3) Nafiʿ, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Madani, the freedman of ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar, was a trustworthy, precise jurist. Al-Bukhari and other hadith critics considered the chain “Malik – Nafiʿ – Ibn ʿUmar” the soundest of all isnads. Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz sent him to Egypt to teach the people. He died in 117 AH. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 2/296, no. 30; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 9/319.
(4) The Companion ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar b. al-Khattab al-Qurashi al-ʿAdawi was born three years after the beginning of the Prophet’s mission, migrated to Medina at the age of ten, and embraced Islam with his father. He sought to fight at Badr and Uhud but was deemed too young, and was first allowed to fight at the Battle of the Trench. Renowned for his scrupulous piety and devotion, he kept aloof from the civil strife that followed the murder of ʿUthman. He died in 73 AH. See: al-Isaba 2/347–350, no. 4834.
(5) See Sahih Muslim (the wording cited here is his), Book of Asceticism, chapter “Do not enter the dwellings of those who wronged themselves,” hadith no. 2981 (4/2286).
(6) ʿAbd Allah b. Dinar al-ʿAdawi, Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman, a freedman of ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar, was trustworthy and belongs to the fourth generation of narrators; all six canonical compilers transmit from him. He died in 127 AH. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 1/413, no. 284.