3462 For hasib (violent tornado with showers of stones), see
17:68: this punishment as inflicted on the Cities of the Plain, to which Lot preached (
54:34). Some Commentators think that this also applied to 'Ad, but their punishment is described as by a violent and unseasonable cold wind (
41:16;
54:19 and
69:6), such as blows in sand storms in the Ahqaf, the region of shifting sands which was in their territory. 3463 For sayhah (Blast) see
11:67 and n. 1561, as also n. 1047 to
7:78 and n. 1996 to
15:73. This word is used in describing the fate of: Thamud (
11:67) Madyan (
11:94); the population to which Lut preached (
15:73); and the Hijr (
15:83), part of the territory of Thamud ; also in the Parable of the City to which came the three Prophets, who found a single believer (
36:29). 3464 This was the fate of Qarun: see
28:81. Cf. also
16:45 and n. 2071. 3465 This was the fate of the hosts of Pharaoh and Haman (
28:40) as well as the wicked generation of Noah (
26:120).