{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_hud04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_hud04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_hud04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/hud04.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from an Islamic religious text presenting a traditional account of the Prophet Hud (peace be upon him) and the people of A'ad, drawing on Quranic passages and classical Islamic historical tradition. The text discusses the location of A'ad's civilization in the Ahqaf region north of Hadramawt, their physical might, idol worship, and eventual destruction after rejecting Hud's monotheistic message \u2014 a story referenced across ten Quranic chapters. A distinctive thread is the author's engagement with scholarly disagreements about the chronology and identity of \"first\" and \"second\" A'ad, as well as the burial location of Hud himself, which the author firmly asserts to be in the Valley of Salam in Iraq near the shrines of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Adam, and Noah. The text closes with a moral-homiletic reading of Hud's conduct \u2014 his patience, dignity, and compassionate persistence against a proud and abusive people \u2014 explicitly offered as a model for religious scholars and anyone charged with commanding good and forbidding evil. The perspective is that of a Shia Muslim author, evident in the honorific treatment of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the framing of sacred burial geography around Shia holy sites in Iraq.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Hud: And Some Historians Said","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1647}