Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 25 Al-Furqan, Ayat 38-38

وَّعَادًا وَّثَمُوۡدَا۟ وَ اَصۡحٰبَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرُوۡنًۢا بَيۡنَ ذٰ لِكَ كَثِيۡرًا‏  ﴿25:38﴾

(25:38) And in like manner were the 'Ad and the Thamud destroyed and the people of al-Rass52 and many a nation in the centuries in between.


Notes

52. There is no definite knowledge about the people of the Raas. Different commentators have said different things about them, but nothing is convincing. The only thing that may be said about them is that they were a people who had killed their Prophet by throwing him into or hanging him down a Rass (an old or dry well).