Transliteration:( Wa samoodal lazeena jaabus sakhra bil waad )
9. The People of Thamud were the maternal cousins of the people of Aad. They had established themselves between Arabia and Syria. They had established seventeen hundred large cities between Hijr and the Valley of Qura. They were expert sculptors, very tall and wealthy. Hazrat Saleh (On whom be peace) was sent as a Prophet to them. Due to their opposition and disobedience to Hazrat Saleh (On whom be peace) they were destroyed by Allah Almighty.
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The tafsir of Surah Fajr verse 9 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fajr ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 14.
(89:9) And how did He deal with Thamud who hewed out rocks in the valley?[5]
5. The valley: Wad-il-Qura, where the Thamud carved out dwellings in the mountains, and probably in history they were the first people who started cutting out such buildings into the rocks. For details, see (Surah Al-Aaraf, ayat 73); (Surah Al-Hijr, ayat 80); (Surah Ash-Shuara, ayat 150).
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