وَأَرْسَلْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰ مِا۟ئَةِ أَلْفٍ أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ
Wa arsalnaahu ilaa mi'ati alfin aw yazeedoon
And We sent him to [his people of] a hundred thousand or more.
Themes in this ayah
Explore in Habl →Scores run 0–100: how strongly this ayah speaks to a theme. 70+ is central, 50+ is clear, under 50 is weak.
5 other themes with weak connections
Labeled by AI and people · How this worksFollow this theme through As-SaaffaatFollow this theme
Lessons from past peoples
37:147Ayah 1182
50 ayahs in As-Saaffaat are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
Tafsir
Scholars offer complementary perspectives
And We sent him afterwards — as We had done before to a people in Nineveh in the region of Mosul — to a community of a hundred thousand or in fact more — a community of twenty thirty or seventy thousand.
Related Hadiths
"I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the saying of Allah, Most High: 'And We sent him to a hundred thousand, or even more (37:147). He said: 'Twenty thousand (more).'"
We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He said when we arrived at a halting place: You are not a hundred thousandth part of those who will come down to me at the pond. I (the narrator AbuHamzah) asked: What was your number that day? He replied: Seven or eight hundred.
Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sent us (on an expedition), and we were three hundred in number, and we were carrying our bags of provisions around our necks.
If we had been a hundred thousand in number, it (the water) would have sufficed us, but actually we were fifteen hundred.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us along with a contingent, and said: If you find so-and-so. He then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect.
Related Topics
Related Ayahs
Loading related ayahs…