Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Fajr, Ayah 9

Al-Fajr · Ayah 9 · View Ayah
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ
And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley?

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And with (the tribe of) Thamud) He says: and how He destroyed Thamud, the people of Salih, (who clove the rocks in the valley) of Qura;

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and Thamūd who hollowed hewed the rocks sakhr is the plural of sakhra in the valley the Wādī al-Qurā rocks which they used as dwellings

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