تفسير : (and that he destroyed the former (tribe of) 'aad) the folk of hud,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and that he destroyed former ‘Ād (‘Ādan al-ūlā: a variant reading elides the nunation with the [following] lām [sc. ‘Āda’l-ūlā]; this [former one] refers to the people of ‘Ād, while the second [‘Ād] is that of the people of sālih)