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Also known as Shaddad Bin Ad, Shaddad ibn 'Ad, Shaddad Ibn Ad (king of Ad)

Shaddād (), also known as Shaddād bin ʽĀd (), was the legendary tyrannical king in Arabian folklore. The lost Arabian city of Iram of the Pillars, which is mentioned in Sura 89 of the Qur'an, it typically attributed to being his realm. Various sources suggest Shaddad was the son of 'Ad al-Miltat ibn Saksak ibn Wa'il ibn Himyar.

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1145
Died
1234
Works
16

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  • Sīrat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī al-musammāt bi-al-nawādir al-sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsin al-yūsufīyah
  • Sīrat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī al-musammāt bi-al-Nawādir al- Sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsin al-Yūsufīyah ; wa-fī dhaylihi Muntakhabāt min kitāb al-Tārīkh li-Ṣāḥib Ḥamāh / taʾlīf Tāj al-Dīn Shāhinshāh Ibn Ayyūb
  • Vita et res gestæ sultani, Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini, abi modaffiri Josephi f. Jobi, f. Sjadsi
  • Kitāb Sīrat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī, al-musammāt bi-, al-Nawādir al-sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsin al-Yūsufīyah
  • Min kitāb al-nawādir al-sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsan al-yūsufyah

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  • The One Thousand and One Nights
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Shaddād (), also known as Shaddād bin ʽĀd (), was the legendary tyrannical king in Arabian folklore. The lost Arabian city of Iram of the Pillars, which is mentioned in Sura 89 of the Qur'an, it typically attributed to being his realm. Various sources suggest Shaddad was the son of 'Ad al-Miltat ibn Saksak ibn Wa'il ibn Himyar.

According to the Qu'ran, Iram of the Pillars was a city of occult worshippers of stone idols, who defied the warnings of the prophet Hud. To punish them, God sent a drought. But the people would not repent, so they were destroyed by a furious wind, from which only Prophet Hud and a few believers emerged. Which later descended to the tribe of Thamud, which stayed in Northern Arabia around the Nabatean Kingdom. While Ad may have stayed in Southern Arabia around Yemen or Oman.

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