Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ AR | EN | UR

The tomb of Hud at the Ahqaf

قبر هود بالأحقاف

Hadramawt

A tomb visited continually by the people of Hadramawt and Mahra — al-Hamdani places it in the red sand-hill within an overlooking cave, at the lower end of the Ahqaf valley that runs from Hadramawt toward Mahra country over days' march 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Arabia
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Overview

The tomb of Hud in al-Ahqaf is a tomb which the people of Hadramawt and Mahra visit at all times. Al-Hamdani describes it as lying in the red dune, in an elevated cave, at the foot of the valley of al-Ahqaf. That valley runs from the land of Hadramawt to the land of Mahra, a journey of days. 1

Connections

Explore the connections

Located in
Hadramawt

People and things also explored

Kinda· al-Nujayr· Daw'an· Yemen· Hadramawt

Sources

  1. Sifat Jazirat al-Arab of al-Hamdani (Müller ed.), p. 70
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “The tomb of Hud at the Ahqaf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qabr-hud-ahqaf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time. Related

Kinda

A Kahlani tribe of Qahtan that settled Bahrayn, then Hadramawt, then Najd, where it formed a considerable kingdom that soon vanished; its al-Harith ibn Amr ibn Hujr was installed at al-Hira by Qubadh after al-Mundhir's dismissal.