DWELLERS OF RASS

25:37 And when the people of Noah rejected the messengers, we drowned them, making them an example to humanity. And We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers.

25:38 And (also) 'Ad and Thamud, and the dwellers of Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

25:39 And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction.

50:12 Denied before them the people of Nuh, and the dwellers of Rass, and the Thamud,

50:13 And 'Ad, and Fir'aun, and the brothers of Lout

50:14 The residents of the Forest (The people of Shu’aib) and the people of Tubba (Tubba’ Al-Ḥimiari was an ancient righteous Yemeni king whose people persisted in disbelief and were destroyed) Each rejected ˹their˺ messenger, so My warning was fulfilled.

These verses indicate that the dwellers of Ar Rass were destroyed as they were the other people who refused to believe in the prophets of Allah.

Ibn Jarir stated that the dwellers of Ar Rass were the people of one of Thamud’s villages. Allah sent a prophet to them called Huzlah Ibn Safwan. They denied and killed him, so Allah destroyed them.

Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Al Hassan narrated: 

“The dwellers of AR Rass had a well sufficing them and their land. They also had a just and good-hearted king. When he died, they were much grieved for him. After four days Satan took his form and said: “I was not dead, but I kept absent from you to see your reaction.” They were very joyful. He commanded them to set up a curtain between him and them and told them that he would never die. A great number of them believed him and were fascinated with and worshiped him. Then Allah sent them a prophet telling them that it was only Satan who was addressing them from behind the curtain. He forbade them to worship him and commanded them to worship only Allah and no partner with Him. In spite of that, they killed their prophet and threw his body into a well. Therefore, Allah destroyed them and their homes.”