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Dhu-al-Kaffayn

The Daws, more specifically the banu-Munhib ibn-Daws[1], had an idol called dhu-al-Kaffayn[2] (he of the two palms). When [the banu-Munhib ibn-Dawsj embraced Islam, the

 

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Prophet sent al-Tufayl ibn-'Amr al-Dawsi[3] to destroy it. Al-Tufayl set the idol on fire and said:

"O dhu-al-Kaffayn, I am not one of thy servants.
Our birth is nobler than thine.
I have stuffed thy head with fire and burnt thy shrine[4]." 		 
 

FOOTNOTES

1. Unidentified.

2. Sirah, p.254; Wellhausen, p. 65.

3. ibid., pp.252-255; cf. Ishtiqaq, p.296.

4. cf. Sirah, p.254, lines 10-11.,