He created man of fermented clay dried tinkling hard like earthen ware,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (he created man) i.e. adam (of clay like the potter's) out of which pottery is made,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he created man, adam, of dry clay (salsāl, a dry hollow mud producing an echo if tapped), resembling the potter’s (fakhkhār, clay that has been baked),