Which Surah and Juz is Quran 54:24 from?

This ayah is from Surah Al-Qamar (The Moon), the 54th surah of the Quran. It appears in Juz 27.

Are there hadiths related to Quran 54:24?

Yes — there are 5 hadiths related to this ayah from Sunan Ibn Majah, Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Sahih Muslim.

What tafsir is available for Quran 54:24?

Commentary on this ayah is available from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Kathir, Al-Jalalayn, Ibn Abbas — classical scholars of Quranic exegesis.

Ayah 23

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِٱلنُّذُرِ...

54:24Al-Qamar

Q: What does Quran 54:24 mean?

Quran 54:24 (Surah Al-Qamar, Ayah 24) translates to: "And said, "Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness."

Q: What topics does Quran 54:24 relate to?

This ayah connects to these Quranic topics: Historical Events, Al-Wahid, People of Thamud, Rejection of Prophets, Prophet Salih.

Ayah 25

أَءُلْقِىَ ٱلذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنۢ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ ...

فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًۭا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًۭا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًۭا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ وَسُعُرٍ

Faqaalooo a-basharam minnaa waahidan nattabi'uhooo innaa izal lafee dalaalinw wa su'ur

And said, "Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness.

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54:24Ayah 155

23 ayahs in Al-Qamar are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.

← Previous on Lessons from past peoples54:23Thamud denied the warning Next on Lessons from past peoples →54:27Indeed, We are sending the she-camel as trial for them, so watch them and be patient.

Tafsir

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and they said ‘Is it a mortal basharan is in the accusative because it is governed by a succeeding verb alone among us minnā wāhidan are both adjectives of basharan that we are to follow? nattabi‘uhu this explains the verb which renders it basharan ‘mortal’ accusative; the interrogative is meant as a negative in other words why should we follow him when there are many of us and he is only one among us and not a king? That is to say we will not follow him. Then indeed if we were to follow him we would be in error a parting with reason and insanity!

“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and we all had a single focus, but when he passed away we started to look here and there (i.e., have different interests).”

Jami` at-Tirmidhi #356Abu Atiyyah narrated that :Hasan

a man among them said: "Malik bin Al-Huwairith came to us in our Musalla to narrate. One day when it was time for Salat, we told him to go ahead (to lead the prayer). He said: 'Let one of you go forward, until I narrate to you why I would not go forward (to lead prayer): I heard Allah's Messenger saying: "Whoever visits a people, then he does not lead them, but a man among them leads them."

Sunan Ibn Majah #3504It was narrated from Ibn 'Umar that the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said:Hasan

"If anyone of you knew what is wrong with being alone, no one would travel at night by himself."

Sahih Muslim #2112It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abu Laila that while Qais b. Sa'd and Sahl b. Hunaif were both in Qadislyya a bier passed by them and they both stood up. They were told that it was the bier of one of the people of the land (non-Muslim). They said that a bier passed before the Prophet (ﷺ) and he stood up. He was told that he (the dead man) was a Jew. Upon this he remarked:Sahih

Was he not a human being or did he not have a soul? And in the hadith narrated by 'Amr b. Murra with the same chain of transmitters, (the words) are:" There passed a bier before us."

Sahih Muslim #7250This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Isma'il b. Khalid with the same chain of transmitters and the words are:Sahih

" One amongst us would relieve himself as the goats do without anything mixing with its excrement."