Yaʿūq
يعوق
Yaʿūq — a pre-Islamic Arabian idol.
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Overview
Ya'uq: Hamdan's idol in Yemen; one of the five idols named in Surat Nuh.
In the sira presentation
Al-Mubarakpuri mentions that idolatry entered the Arabs in the time of Amr ibn Luhayy, who saw the people of al-Balqa venerating idols and carried them to the Hijaz — until every clan had an idol and every house an idol 1.
For young visitors
Ya'uq is an idol some Arabs worshipped before Islam instead of God — until Islam demolished all the idols.
Connections
- Held by
- Banu Hamdan
- Made in
- Yemen
People and things also explored
Banu HamdanYemenNasrThe Second Abyssinian Occupation of YemenLiberation and Persian Rule of YemenAbrahaal-Aswad al-AnsiAryat (Abraha’s predecessor in Yemen)
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Akhbar Makka — al-Azraqi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yaʿūq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/yauq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.