Al-Qur'an Surah As-Saffat Verse 147

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And We had sent him (as messenger) to one hundred thousand, or more.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

We ˹later˺ sent him ˹back˺ to ˹his city of˺ at least one hundred thousand people,

Ruwwad Translation Center

We sent him to one hundred thousand people or more,

A. J. Arberry

Then We sent him unto a hundred thousand, or more,

Abdul Haleem

We sent him to a hundred thousand people or more.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And We had sent him to a hundred thousand: rather they exceeded.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more.

Abul Ala Maududi

and We sent him forth to a nation of a hundred thousand or more,

Ahmed Ali

We sent him to a hundred thousand men or more,

Ahmed Raza Khan

And We sent him towards a hundred thousand people, in fact more.

Ali Quli Qarai

We sent him to a [community of] hundred thousand or more,

Ali Ünal

And We sent him once again to (his people, numbering) a hundred thousand, rather they tended to increase.

Amatul Rahman Omar

And We sent him (back as a Messenger at Nineveh) to a people hundred thousand strong, rather they were even more.

English Literal

And We sent him to one hundred thousand or they increase/exceed.

Faridul Haque

And We sent him towards a hundred thousand people, in fact more.

Hamid S. Aziz

And We sent him to a hundred thousand folk or more.

Hilali & Khan

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And We caused a gourd to grow up for him.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And We sent him to a hundred thousand, rather they exceeded.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (folk) or more

Muhammad Sarwar

We sent him to a hundred thousand or more people.

Qaribullah & Darwish

Then We sent him to a hundred thousand or more,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

Wahiduddin Khan

We sent him as a messenger to a hundred thousand people or more,

Talal Itani

Then We sent him to a hundred thousand, or more.

Tafsir jalalayn

And We sent him, afterwards -- as [We had done] before, to a people in Nineveh, in the region of Mosul -- to a [community of a] hundred thousand or, in fact, more -- [a community of] twenty, thirty or seventy thousand.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

It is as if he was commanded, after he came forth from the fish, to go back to those to whom he had been sent in the first place, and they all believed in him.

أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ

or even more.

Makhul said,

"They numbered one hundred and ten thousand.

This was reported by Ibn Abi Hatim.

Ibn Jarir said,

"Some of the scholars of Arabic, the people of Basrah, said that this means up to one hundred thousand or more."

Ibn Jarir interpreted this Ayah as he interpreted the Ayat;

ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ مِّن بَعْدِ ذلِكَ فَهِىَ كَالْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً

Then, after that, your hearts were hardened and became as stones or even worse in hardness. (2;74),

إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ النَّاسَ كَخَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ أَوْ أَشَدَّ خَشْيَةً

Behold! a section of them fear men as they fear Allah or even more. (4;77)

and,

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى

And was at a distance of two bows' length or (even) nearer. (53;9)

The meaning is,

"not less than that, but rather more.