An-Naml 27:20 وتفقد الطير فقال ما لي لا ارى الهدهد ام كان من الغايبين ٢٠
Ukurasa 378 · Juzuu 19
وَتَفَقَّدَ
ٱلطَّيۡرَ
فَقَالَ
مَا
لِيَ
لَآ
أَرَى
ٱلۡهُدۡهُدَ
أَمۡ
كَانَ
مِنَ
ٱلۡغَآئِبِينَ
٢٠
˹One day˺ he inspected the birds, and wondered, “Why is it that I cannot see the hoopoe? Or could he be absent?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
And he took attendance of the birds and said, "Why do I not see the hoopoe - or is he among the absent?
— Saheeh International
Soma Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Absence of the Hoopoe
Mujahid, Sa`id bin Jubayr and others narrated from Ibn `Abbas and others that the hoopoe was an expert who used to show Sulayman where water was if he was out in open land and needed water. The hoopoe would look for water for him in the various strata of the earth, just as a
…The Absence of the Hoopoe
Mujahid, Sa`id bin Jubayr and others narrated from Ibn `Abbas and others that the hoopoe was an expert who used to show Sulay
…