| الحِجْرْ Al-Ḥijr The Stoneland | |
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| Classification | Meccan |
| Other names | Al-Hijr Valley |
| Position | Juzʼ 14 |
| Hizb no. | 27 |
| No. of verses | 99 |
| No. of Rukus | 6 |
| No. of words | 657 |
| No. of letters | 2882 |
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| Alternative name | Al-Hijr ٱلْحِجْر Hegra |
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| Location | Al Madinah Region, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia |
| Coordinates | 26°47′30″N 37°57′10″E / 26.79167°N 37.95278°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| Official name | Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâ’in Sâlih) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | ii, iii |
| Designated | 2008 (32nd session) |
| Reference no. | 1293 |
| Region | Arab States |
Al-Ḥijr (Arabic: الحِجْرْ, lit. 'The Stoneland')[1] is the 15th sūrah (chapter of the Quran). It has 99 āyāt (verses).
Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier Meccan surah, received by Muhammad shortly after chapter 12, Yusuf, during his last year in Mecca. Like other surahs of this period, it praises God. Parts of Q15:4-74 are preserved in the Ṣan‘ā’1 lower text.[2]
This surah takes its name from 80th verse (āyah),[3] which refers to Mada'in Saleh, a pre-Islamic archaeological site, also called Hegra (from Arabic: الحِجَارَة, romanized: al-ḥijāra, lit. 'the Stones') or al-Ḥijr (Arabic: الحِجر, romanized: al-ḥijr, lit. 'the Stone').
- ^ Ibn Kathir. "Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Surah Al Hijr". Quran 4 U. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Sadeghi, Behnam; Goudarzi, Mohsen (January 2012). "Ṣan'ā' 1 and the Origins of the Qur'ān". Der Islam. 87 (1–2): 37. doi:10.1515/islam-2011-0025.
- ^ "The Quranic Arabic Corpus - Word by Word Grammar, Syntax and Morphology of the Holy Quran".