An-Nasa'i recorded that Abu At-Tufayl said, "When the
Messenger of Allah(Sallalahu alaihi wasallam) conquered Makkah, he sent Khalid bin Al-Walid
to the area of Nakhlah where the idol of Al-`Uzza was erected on three trees of
a forest. Khalid cut the three trees and approached the house built around it and
destroyed it. When he went back to the Prophet and informed him of the story,
the Prophet (Sallalahu alaihi wasallam) said to him,
ارْجِعْ فَإِنَّكَ
لَمْ تَصْنَعْ شَيْئًا
(Go back and finish your mission, for you have not finished
it.) Khalid went back and when the custodians who were also its servants of
Al-`Uzza saw him, they started invoking by calling Al-`Uzza! When Khalid
approached it, he found a naked woman whose hair was untidy and who was throwing
sand on her head. Khalid killed her with the sword and went back to the
Messenger of Allah , who said to him,
تِلْكَ الْعُزَّى
(That was Al-`Uzza!) ”
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir / Surah An-Najm/ Ayah 19
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