(Those before them) those before your people, O Muhammad, such as the people of Hud, Salih and Shu'ayb as well as others (denied, and so the doom came on them whence they knew not) it was coming.
- 39:2525
كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Those before them had denied, then punishment had overtaken them is from a quarter they did not suspect.
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 184