To honor the felicity of the Ka`bah he ordered making of a...

To honor the felicity of the Ka`bah he ordered making of a cloth cover for the structure and personally installed it there. The historian, Al-Buladhari, writes: `Adnan was the first to provide a cover to the Ka`bah.[1] [1] Ansāb al-Ashrāf, Vol. 1, Page 15. When the Caledonian monarch, Nebuchadnezzar, proceeded towards the Arab land after capturing Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), he attacked Hijaz when `Adnan resisted his hordes to the best of his capabilities.

But his men, who were smaller in number, started fleeing. He could not contend with the enemy all alone or with a few dedicated men. Therefore, he felt it discreet to leave Hijaz and head for Yemen with his son `Adnan and settled down in Yemen and died there only. He left behind ten sons. The best known among his sons was Ma`d. Ma`d ibn `Adnan His mother’s name was Mehdū bint (