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Overview

Ukaz: the greatest of the Arabs' seasonal markets near Ta'if; meeting-place of poets and orators, and site of the Prophet ﷺ's first call to the delegations.

The place

Ukaz was among the Arabs' greatest markets; people gathered there from every tribe in the hajj season, boasting and vaunting in poetry and oratory ¹.

The Prophet used to go out to Ukaz, al-Majanna and Dhu al-Majaz offering himself to the tribes and calling them to Islam before the Hijra ¹.

For young visitors

Ukaz is a great market where the Arabs gathered long ago for trade and poetry contests; the Prophet used to call people to God there.

Connections

Explore the connections

Has practice: The economic condition of the Arabs before Islam

People and things also explored

Dhu al-Majaz· Majanna· The economic condition of the Arabs before Islam

Sources

al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “ʿUkāẓ”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ukaz/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Dhu al-Majaz

One of the famous Arab fairs held in the sacred months along with Ukaz and Majanna, in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account of the pre-Islamic economy.