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تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿٤﴾

Which hit them with stones made of baked clay,

 

Tafsir al-Tabari                                                             تفسیر الطبری

تَرْمِي هَذِهِ الطَّيْرُ الْأَبَابِيلُ الَّتِي أَرْسَلَهَا اللَّهُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ، بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلِ.

These Ababeel birds whom Allah Almighty had sent, threw the stones made of baked clay on the people of the elephant.

 

Tafsir Al-Tabari (Tafsir Ibn Jareer / Jame’ al-Bayaan fi Taweel al-Quraan) of Imam Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Jareer al-Tabri t D. 310 A.H.

 

Tafsir al-Baghawi                                                        تفسیر البغوی

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: صَاحَتِ الطير ورمتهم بالحجارة  فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ رِيحًا فَضَرَبَتِ الْحِجَارَةَ فَزَادَتْهَا شِدَّةً فَمَا وَقَعَ مِنْهَا حَجَرٌ عَلَى رَجُلٍ إِلَّا خَرَجَ مِنَ الْجَانِبِ الْآخَرِ، وَإِنْ وَقَعَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ خَرَجَ مِنْ دُبُرِهِ.

Sayyiduna Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn Mas’ood – may Allah be pleased with them – said:  The birds flew and threw stones at them, then Allah Almighty sent wind which increased the force, and as the stones approached anyone of them, if it entered them through one side, it came out through the other side.  If it entered through their head it came out through their bottom.

 

Tafsir al-Baghawi (Ma’aalim al-Tanzeel) of Muhiyy al-Sunnah Imam Abu Muhammad Al-Husain ibn Mas’ood al-Baghwi al-Shafe’I t D. 510 A.H.

 

Tafsir al-Qurtubi                                                                                                                         تفسیر القرطبی

في الصحاح: بِحِجارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ قَالُوا: حِجَارَةٌ مِنْ طِينٍ، طُبِخَتْ بِنَارِ جَهَنَّمَ، مَكْتُوبٌ فِيهَا أَسْمَاءُ الْقَوْمِ، لِقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجارَةً مِنْ طِينٍ. مُسَوَّمَةً  [الذاريات: 34 – 33].

It is mentioned in authentic narrations about the verse that the stones were made of clay which were baked in the hellfire, each bore the names of those people, as Allah Almighty has stated:

لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجارَةً مِنْ طِينٍ. مُسَوَّمَةً

“To throw upon them stones of baked clay. That are kept marked”

(Al-Dhariyat 51, Verse 33-34)

 

وقال عبد الرحمن ابن أَبْزَى: مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ: مِنَ السَّمَاءِ، وَهِيَ الْحِجَارَةُ الَّتِي نَزَلَتْ عَلَى قَوْمِ لُوطٍ.

Abdur Rahman ibn Abza said about the stones that were thrown from above that they were the same stones that descended on the nation of Sayyiduna Loot – peace be upon him.

 

Tafsir Qurtubi (Al-Jame’ Li Ahkaam al-Quran) Imam Shamsuddin Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qurtubi t D. 671 A.H.