Volume 6, Book 60, Number 442:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
All the idols which were worshipped by the people of Noah were worshipped by the Arabs later
on. As for the idol Wadd, it was worshipped by the tribe of Kalb at Daumat-al-Jandal; Suwa’ was the
idol of (the tribe of) Murad and then by Ban, Ghutaif at Al-Jurf near Saba; Yauq was the idol of
Hamdan, and Nasr was the idol of Himyr, the branch of Dhi-al-Kala.’ The names (of the idols)
formerly belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah, and when they died Satan inspired their
people to (prepare and place idols at the places where they used to sit, and to call those idols by their
names. The people did so, but the idols were not worshipped till those people (who initiated them)
had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure, whereupon people began worshipping
them.