Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Saad, Ayah 12
كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ وَعَادٌۭ وَفِرْعَوْنُ ذُو ٱلْأَوْتَادِ
The people of Noah denied before them, and [the tribe of] 'Aad and Pharaoh, the owner of stakes,
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Before them the people of Noah denied the inflection of the verb kadhdabat ‘denied’ that is governed by qawmu ‘people’ is in the feminine person because of the implicit sense and so did those of ‘Ād and Pharaoh he of the stakes — he used to fix four stakes for the person who incurred his wrath and tie to these stakes that person’s hands and feet and then torture him —
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(The folk of Noah before them) before your folk, O Muhammad (denied) Noah (and (so did the tribe of) 'Aad) the folk of Hud deny Hud, (and Pharaoh) denied Moses (firmly planted) who had an established kingdom; and it is said that this means: the one who tortured using posts; this is because whenever he got angry against someone he tortured him using four posts,