An-Náml 27:20 وتفقد الطير فقال ما لي لا ارى الهدهد ام كان من الغايبين ٢٠
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?
Lee 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
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