Taḥdhīr al-SājidNasir al-Din al-Albani

“I see how deeply you mourn this man. Shall I fashion a likeness of him for you to place in your meeting-place so you can remember him by it?” They replied, “Yes.” So he sculpted a likeness, set it up in their assembly, and they began to commemorate him. When he noticed the extent of their attachment, he said, “Shall I make for each one of you, in his own house, a statue like it, so that he may remember him there as well?” They said, “Yes.” He therefore fashioned a statue for every household, and they would regularly recall him through it.

Their children then grew up watching what their elders did, generation after generation, until the original motive for remembering him was forgotten and they finally took him as a deity besides Allah. (1)

He added: “The very first thing ever worshipped on earth apart from Allah was Wadd—the idol they named Wadd.” (2)

(1) Al-Kawakib adds, on the authority of Ibn Abi Hatim, the phrase: “their grandchildren.” (2) I add: Ibn Abi Hatim also recorded the report, as cited in al-Kawakib al-Darari by Ibn Urwa al-Hanbali (vol. 6, p. 112, no. 2), where the full chain is given. The isnad is sound up to this Abu al-Mutahhar, whom I have been unable to identify; he is not listed by al-Dulabi in al-Kuna wa-l-Asma, by Muslim in al-Kuna, or elsewhere. He was perhaps a Shiʿi, for al-Tusi likewise omits him from al-Kuna in his Fihrist Rijal al-Shia.
أرى جزعكم على هذا، فهل لكم أن أصور لكم مثله، فيكون في ناديكم فتذكرونه به؟ قالوا: نعم، فصور لهم مثله، فوضعوه في ناديهم، وجعلوا يذكرونه، فلما رأى ما بهم من ذكره، قال: هل لكم أن أجعل لكم في منزل كل رجل منكم تمثالاً مثله، فيكون في بيته فتذكرونه؟ قالوا: نعم، فصور لكل أهل بيت تمثالاً مثله، فأقبلوا، فجعلوا يذكرونه به، قال: وأدرك أبناؤهم، فجعلوا يرون ما يصنعون به، وتناسلوا ودرس أمر ذكرهم إياه حتى اتخذوه إلهاً من دون الله (١) قال: وكان أول ما عبد غير الله في الأرض «ود» الصنم الذي سموه «ود» (٢).
(١) زاد في «الكواكب» من رواية ابن أبي حاتم «أولاد أولادهم». (٢) قلت: ورواه ابن أبي حاتم أيضاً كما في «الكواكب الدراري» لابن عروة الحنبلي (٦ / ١١٢ / ٢) وساق إسناده، وهو حسن إلى أبي المطهر هذا، ولم أعرفه ولم يورده الدولابي في «الكنى والأسماء» ولا مسلم في «الكنى» ولا غيرهما ولعله من الشيعة ولم يورده الطوسي في «الكنى» من «فهرست رجال الشيعة».

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