Okaz website

Souq Okaz used to gather during the sacred months, and people would come to it in safety, then they would go from there to Souq Majnah, then Souq Dhu al-Majaz, which is the major Hajj season, and Ukaz is on the way of the people of Yemen and Najd to Mecca.. Those who thought that Souq Okaz was held in the month of Shawwal were mistaken. This month is not one of the sacred months. It was mentioned in the songs that Abdullah al-Nahdi, the pre-Islamic poet, wanted to go to the country of Banu Numayr to see his beloved Hind, but his father prevented him and feared retaliation, and told him: Meet with them in the sacred month in Ukaz or in Mecca... And in the biography of Ibn Hisham in the chapter on the war of the immoral: Then he came to the Quraysh. He said: Al-Barrad killed Urwa while they were in the sacred month of Ukaz... These narrations and others bear witness that Ukaz was being held. In the sacred months.