Story of PROPHET: SALEH (عليه السلام) Part 6 Chapter 5

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

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PROPHET: SALEH (عليه السلام)

PART: 6 (Chapter – 5)

THE CONFRONTATION ON SHARING WATER

After a long confrontational situation, their leaders gathered and decided unanimously that the she-camel should be hamstrung, so that they could be relieved and get a sufficient portion of water for themselves. “So they slew the she-camel and insolently defied their Lord’s Command and challenged Saleh saying: ‘Bring us that which you threatened us with; if you are a Messenger.”’ (7:77)

The person who took the charge of slaying that she-camel was their chief Qidar bin Salif bin Junda. It is said that he was a man born out of wedlock. His action was by consensus of the people and that is why his act of slaying is regarded as the act of his whole people.

REWARD FOR KILLING THE SHE-CAMEL – WOMEN

Ibn Jarir and other exegetes have said: There were two women in Thamud, the name of one of them was Saduq who was the daughter of Mahya bin Zuhair. She was wealthy and of noble descent. She was married to one who became a believer, so she divorced him. Then she went to one of her cousins, who was called Masra bin Muharraj and suggested that if he were to kill the she-camel, she would marry him. The name of the other woman was Unaizah bint Ghunaim, nicknamed Umm Ghanmah, she was old and a disbeliever. She had daughters form her husband Dhwab bin Amr, one of the chieftains. She displayed her four daughters upon Qidar bin Salif and said if he were to kill the she-camel, he could marry anyone of them he wanted.

THE NINE CONSPIRATORS

These two youths volunteered themselves to kill her and wanted some more from the community to come forward. Seven more of them made themselves available, and so they became nine people. The Qur’an said about them: 

“And there were in the city nine people who made mischief in the land and did not act righteously.” (27:48)

THE KILLING

They tried to persuade the rest of the tribe by showing the benefit of killing that she-camel. They agreed to their plan. They went out lying in wait for her. When she came out from the watering place, Masra ambushed her and aimed his arrow at her and permeated it into her shinbone.

اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَم

To be Continued…

ان شاء الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ

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