The idols that had belonged to the people of Nuh later came to be found among the Arabs. As for Wadd, it belonged to the tribe of Kalb at Dumat al-Jandal. Suwa belonged to Huzayl. Yaghuth belonged to Murad and then to Banu Ghutayf at al-Jawf near Saba. Yauq belonged to Hamdan. Nasr belonged to Himyar, to the family of Dhu al-Kala.These were the names of righteous men from the people of Nuh. When they died, Satan inspired their people to set up monuments at the gathering places where these men used to sit, and to name them after them. They did so, but the monuments were not worshipped until that generation perished and knowledge of their original purpose was forgotten. Then they were worshipped.
صارت الأوثان التي كانت في قوم نوح في العرب بعد؛ أما وذ فكانت لكلب بدومة الجندل، وأما سواع كانت لهذيل، وأما يغوث فكانت لمراد ثم لبني غطيف بالجوف عند سبأ، وأما يعوق فكانت لهمدان، وأما نسر فكانت لحمير لآل ذي الكلاع، أسماء رجال صالحين من قوم نوح، فلما هلكوا أوحى الشيطان إلى قومهم أن انصبوا إلى مجالسهم التي كانوا يجلسون أنصابا، وسموها بأسمائهم ففعلوا، فلم تعبد، حتى إذا هلك أولئك، وتنسخ العلم عبدت.
Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4920) from Ibrahim bin Musa, who said, Hisham informed us, from Ibn Jurayj, and Ata said, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. His statement, "and Ata said," refers to Ibn Abu Rabah, not Ata Khurasani, because Ata Khurasani never met Ibn Abbas, which would make the chain broken. Moreover, Ibn Jurayj never heard the tafsir directly from Khurasani but rather received it from his son Uthman by way of handing over the manuscript, as Ali bin Madini pointed out.Salih bin Ahmad bin Hanbal mentioned in Ilal, from Ali bin Madini, who said, I asked Yahya Qattan about the hadith of Ibn Jurayj from Ata Khurasani, and he said, "Daif." I said, "But he says, he informed us." He said, "That means nothing, it is only a book that was handed to him." So Bukhari determined that it was Ata bin Abu Rabah, and the fact that Abdul-Razzaq and others narrated this tafsir from Ibn Jurayj from Ata Khurasani does not preclude that Ata bin Abu Rabah also transmitted it. Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on him, who was well known for his rigor and strictness regarding continuity of transmission, would not have overlooked this.As for his statement, "the idols that had been among the people of Nuh later turned up among the Arabs," these idols had been buried by the flood, and they remained buried until Satan brought them out for the polytheists of the Arabs, as Ibn Abbas said. As for the Arabs, their idols were Lat, belonging to Thaqif, Uzza, belonging to Sulaym, Ghatfan, and Jusham, Manat, belonging to Qudayd, and Isaf, Naila, and Hubal, belonging to the people of Makkah.