{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/hud00.htm","path":"isl/pro/hud00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/hud00.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nHud (PUH)\nHe is the prophet that was sent to '\u00c2d ben 'Ewas ben Eram ben S\u00e2m\nben Nuh [i.e.ben Shem ben Noah] as it was reported, and Hud (PUH) is the\nson of 'Abdullah ben Rab\u00e2h ben Khalood ben '\u00c2d ben 'Ewas ben\nEram ben S\u00e2m ben Nuh (PUH), as mentioned in Safeenat Al-Bih\u00e2r\n[book's name] for Al-Muhaddi\u00fe Al-Qommi, and it is the same as that\nmentioned in Qisas Al-Anbiy\u00e2' [stories of prophets] for 'Abdul-Wah\u00e2b\nAl-Najj\u00e2r. It is reported also that Hud is the son of Sh\u00e2likh\nben Arfakhshd ben Shem ben Noah (PUH), so the number of fathers between\nthe messenger and his nation is equal so between them and Shem only two\nand no more, and for the first report about the fathers of Hud (PUH) there\nis more than four fathers obviously. God the Exalted did say: And unto\n(the tribe of) A'ad (We sent) their brother, Hud. He said: O my people!\nServe Allah. Ye have no other God save Him. Will ye not ward off (evil)\n?(Al-A`r\u00e2f:65), and the meaning, and God knows better, that We sent\nto '\u00c2d their brother Hud, and it is a joining for what was before\nfrom the story of Noah (PUH) by God's saying: We sent Noah (of old) unto\nhis people, and he said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other God\nsave Him. Lo! I fear for you the retribution of an Awful Day(Al-A`r\u00e2f:59),\nand God did make them the inhabitants of earth after the people of Noah\n(PUH), and God did provide them with large bodies, and it was mentioned\nthat one of them could reach the tallness of seventy to one hundred cubits,\nand as reported from Abi Ja`far Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH): they were like long\npalm trees, one of them can hit the mountain and break a piece of it. And\nit was said: as a sign of their might, one man of them can knock of rocks\nby his hand. and they used to worship idols that they called gods, and\nfor this Hud (PUH) said to them: Would ye wrangle with me over names which\nye have named, ye and your fathers, for which no warrant from Allah hath\nbeen revealed?(Al-A'r\u00e2f:71). They are the people that God destroyed\nby the fatal wind, and they used to say to Hud (PUH) when he used to calls\nthem to worship God and worship no other god with Him: We think that you've\nbeen under the spell of our gods for calling them with bad names.\nWhen Hud (PUH) called them to God and to His religion and even exaggerated\nin his sermons and guiding them and warned them against the Will of the\nAlmighty and His punishment in this life and the after-life, all of that,\ndid not bring anything with them, then God saved the rains from them until\naridity became over them so that they can be aware of what happened to\nthem and get back to obey God, but that did nothing to them and their ego\nincreased, and in a speech reported to Al-Sajj\u00e2d (PUH) when someone\ntold him (PUH) by the purpose of criticism that your grandfather [the prophet\nMuhammad PUH] said: our brothers wronged us and we fought them for their\nwrong, so he (PUH) said in his answer: woe to you, don't you read the Quran?\nAnd unto (the tribe of) A'ad (We sent) their brother, Hud(Al-A'r\u00e2f:65),\nAnd unto Midian (We sent) their brother, Shu'eyb(Al-A'r\u00e2f:85), And\nto (the tribe of) Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih(Al-A'r\u00e2f:73),\nso they are like them, and they were brothers for them in the tribe and\nnot in religion, and in another reported speech he said to them: So God\ndestroyed A'ad and saved Hud, and destroyed Thamud and saved Salih..etc.\nAnd in Al-K\u00e2fi [a book's name] it is reported from Al-B\u00e2qir\n(PUH), that Noah brought tidings for Shem in advance for the coming of\nHud and said to him: God will send a prophet called Hud, and he will call\nhis people to God but they will deny him and He will destroy them with\nthe wind, so whoever reaches his days let him believe in him and follow\nhim, and there were prophets between both of them. And in Al-Ikm\u00e2l\n[a book's name] as reported from Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) it is that when Noah\nwas about to die he called his followers and said to them: you have to\nknow that after my death there will be an absence in which tyrants will\nappear, and God will save you by a viceroy from my descendants called Hud,\nhe has respect and calm look-likes, he looks like me in shape and manner,\nand from them also (PUT) [meaning the Household members PUT]: when Hud\nwas sent, he was a descendant of Shem (PUH) and the others said who is\nmore stronger than we are so they were destroyed by the wind, and Hud foretold\nhis people about S\u00e2lih (PUH) and advised them to follow him, and\nas mentioned from Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) that prophets were sent in special\nand general prophecy, and Hud was sent in a special prophecy to A'ad.\nNext: The Land of A'ad and Their Crafts","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Hud: Hud PUH","type":"page"}