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Surah ash-Shams ayah 12

Arabic text

Idhi inba'atha ashqa ha

When the most wicked among them went forth

The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah:

The most wicked and the most wretched among them, Qidar ibn Salif, hamstrung the she-camel of the prophet Salih. Ahmad ibn Hanbal reported that once in the course of a sermon, the Prophet mentioned the she-camel and its killing and recited these verses