Qusayy ibn Kilab
Arabian · mortal · pantheon era · Recorded classification
THE SECOND NAMED AGENT OF THE MECCAN CULT IN THIS BATCH, after Amr ibn Luhayy. Between them the sources give the Ka'ba's idols a history with dates and actors rather than a timeless pagan backdrop, and that history is what the corpus was missing.
Domains
- chieftaincy of mecca
- leadership of quraysh
- emplacement of the idols at zamzam
Relations
- emplaced the idol of: IsafWritten within this batch.Reference treatment of Qusayy ibn Kilab: he rose to become chief of Mecca and leader of the Quraysh tribe, and was an important pre-Islamic Arabian figure; the Qurayshi Qusayy ibn Kilab had taken the two stones of Isaf and Na'ila to the well of Zamzam near the Ka'ba. (secondary)
- emplaced the idol of: Na'ilaWritten within this batch.Reference treatment of Qusayy ibn Kilab: he rose to become chief of Mecca and leader of the Quraysh tribe, and was an important pre-Islamic Arabian figure; the Qurayshi Qusayy ibn Kilab had taken the two stones of Isaf and Na'ila to the well of Zamzam near the Ka'ba. (secondary)
Sources
- Chief of Mecca and leader of the Quraysh, who took the two stones of Isaf and Na'ila to the well of Zamzam near the Ka'ba.: Reference treatment of Qusayy ibn Kilab: he rose to become chief of Mecca and leader of the Quraysh tribe, and was an important pre-Islamic Arabian figure; the Qurayshi Qusayy ibn Kilab had taken the two stones of Isaf and Na'ila to the well of Zamzam near the Ka'ba. (secondary); Ibn Ishaq, via Ibn Hisham, al-Sira al-Nabawiyya (primary)