Hud (prophet)
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Islamic prophet Hud هود |
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| Born | sometime between 300 and 600 BCE |
| Resting place | Kabr Nabi Hud (Possible) |
| Other names | Hud has been identified with ʻĒḇer (Hebrew: עֵבֶר), but this is debated in Islam |
Hud (/huːd/; Arabic: هود) was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in the Qur’an. The eleventh chapter of the Qur’an, Hud, is named after him, though the narrative of Hud comprises only a small portion of the chapter.
Hud has sometimes been identified with 'Eber, an ancestor of the Israelites who is mentioned in the Old Testament.
He is said to have been a subject of a mulk (Arabic: مُـلـك, kingdom) named after its founder, ʿĀd, a fourth generation descendant of Noah (his father being Uz, the son of Aram, who was the son of Shem and a son of Noah. The other tribes claimed to be present at this time in Arabia, were the Thamud, Jurhum, Tasam, Jadis, Amim, Midian, Amalek Imlaq, Jasim, Qahtan, Banu Yaqtan and others.
The Qur’an gives the location of ʿĀd as being "Al-Ahqaf" (Arabic: الأحـقـاف, "The Sandy Plains," or "the Wind-curved Sand-hills"). It is believed to have been in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, possibly in eastern Yemen and/or western ‘Oman. In the 1980s, a settlement was discovered and thought to be Ubar, which is thought to be mentioned in the Qur'an as "Iram dhat al-‘Imad" (Arabic: إرم ذات الـعـمـاد, Iram of the Pillars) in the Qur’an, and may have been the capital of ʿĀd. An alternative translation of "Iram dhat al-‘Imad" is "Iram of the tentpoles" and it is uncertain whether the name identifies a city or a tribe.
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