An-Naml 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
And he took a muster of the Birds; and he said: "Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees?
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
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