ٱلْحِجْر : ٨٠

  • وَلَقَدۡ And certainly
  • كَذَّبَ denied
  • أَصۡحَٰبُ (the) companions
  • ٱلۡحِجۡرِ (of) the Rocky Tract
  • ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ the Messengers
And certainly did the companions of al-Ḥijr1 [i.e., the Thamūd] deny the messengers.
Footnotes
1 The valley of stone.
And verily the dwellers in al-Hijr - a valley between Medina and Syria - namely, [the tribe of] Thamood, denied those who had been sent [by God], when they denied [the prophet] Saalih, as this constituted a denial of the other messengers, since they all shared the fact that they came with [the Message proclaiming] the Oneness of God.