But they called him a liar and hamstrung her. So God obliterated them for their crime, and (destroyed) all of them alike.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but they denied him) they denied the message brought by salih, (and they hamstrung her) they hamstrung the she-camel, (so allah doomed them for their sin) so allah destroyed them because of killing the she-camel and disbelieving in salih (and razed (their dwellings)) killing the old and the young among them.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but they denied him, with regard to his saying this [as being a command] from god — which if they contravened would immediately result in chastisement being sent down on them — then hamstrung her, they slew it in order to appropriate her [share of the] drinking water. so their lord closed in on them, the chastisement, because of their sin, and meted it equally [among them], that is, the closing in on them, in other words, he subsumed them all by it, so that not one of them escaped.
