Bajar

According to ibn-Durayd[1], Bajar[2] was an idol which the Azd as well as such neighboring tribes of the Tayyi' and the Quda'ah [worshipped] during the Jahillyah days. It is also pronounced Bajir.

FOOTNOTES

1. 'Abu-Bakr Muhammad ibn-al-Hasan ibn-Durayd al-Azdi, A.H. 223-321 / A.D. 838-933; see al-Fihrist, pp.61-62; ibn-Khallikan, vol. II, pp.308-313.

2. See Lisan al-Arab, entry bjr; ibn-al-Athir, al-Nihayah fi Gharib al-Hadith w-al-Athar, Cairo, 1322, vol. i, p.73; cf. al-Bakri, Kitab Mu' jam Ma Ista' jam, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1877, p.207, lines 12, 14. According to ibn-al-Athir it is sometimes called Bahar, with a ha instead of a jinn.