Thamud
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Thamūd · ثمود
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The extinct Arabian tribe of Thamūd, attested in Greek and Roman writers, in inscriptions in the Ḥijāz, and in Assyrian records of the eighth century BC.
For all that, they reckoned its history not to reach back in antiquity beyond the date of the Nativity save by a little — until the excavators came upon mention of it in the ruins of Assyria about the eighth century before the Nativity (1), in the course of reports of wars and conquests, which indicates that that tribe was of consequence in that age.
for when he came upon what McLennan had written concerning the totem among the savage tribes — he being an Orientalist acquainted with the reports of the Arabs, ill-thinking of their Jāhilīyah, contemptuous of the sayings of their transmitters and their genealogists — and saw among the names of the fathers of the tribes and the sub-tribes what resembles the names of animals, it leapt at once into …
ʻĀd and Thamūd
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Qurʼanic nation named among those destroyed.
The bedouin claim that when God, exalted be He, destroyed the nation called Wabār — as He destroyed Ṭasm and Jadīs and ʻImlāq and Thamūd and ʻĀd — the jinn settled in their dwellings and guarded them against everyone who sought them;