Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Muminoon, Ayah 12
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍۢ مِّن طِينٍۢ
And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.
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(Verily We created man) the son of Adam (from a product of wet earth);
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And by God We certainly created man Adam from an extraction min sulālatin derives from the verbal expression salaltu’l-shay’a mina’l-shay’ ‘I drew one thing out of another’ meaning ‘I extracted it therefrom’ his Adam’s substance being of clay min tīnin is semantically connected to sulālatin ‘an extraction’.