وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًۭا ۖ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
Wa 'amtarnaa 'alaihim mataran fanzur kaifa kaana aaqibatul mujjrimeen
And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.
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7:84Ayah 1206
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And We rained upon them a rain the stones of baked clay hijārat al-sijjīl and it destroyed them. So behold what was the end of the sinners!
Related Hadiths
When the Prophet (May peace e upon him) commanded to stone Ma’iz b. Malik, we took him out to Baql. I swear by Allah, we did not tie him, nor did we dig a pit for him. But he was standing before us. The narrator Abu Kamil said: So we threw at him bones, clods of mud and pieces of earthenware. He ran away and we ran after him till he came to a side of the Harrah. He stood there before us and we threw at him big stones of the Harrah until he died. He (the Prophet) did not ask forgiveness for him, nor did he speak ill of him.
"I saw the Messenger of Allah stoning the Jimar with what was similar to pebbles for Al-Khadhaf."
I was one of those who stoned him at the Musalla in Al-Madina (See Hadith 5272).
One who had heard Jabir b. 'Abdullah saying this informed me thus: I was one of those who stoned him. We stoned him at the place of prayer (either that of 'Id or a funeral). When the stones hurt him, he ran away. We caught him in the Harra and stoned him (to death).
During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys.
They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along
with them.
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