Ya-Sin 36:13

<h2>The Story of the Dwellers of the Town and Their Messengers, a Lesson that Those Who belied Their Messengers were Destroyed </h2><p>Allah says, `O Muhammad, tell your people who disbelieve in you,'</p><div class="arabic uthmani">مَّثَلاً أَصْحَـبَ القَرْيَةِ إِذْ جَآءَهَا الْمُرْسَلُونَ</div><p>(a similitude; the Dwellers of the Town, when there came Messengers to them.) In the reports that he transmitted from Ibn `Abbas, Ka`b Al-Ahbar and Wahb bin Munabbih - Ibn Ishaq reported that it was the city of Antioch, in which there was a king called Antiochus the son of Antiochus the son of Antiochus, who used to worship idols. Allah sent to him three Messengers, whose names were Sadiq, Saduq and Shalum, and he disbelieved in them. It was also narrated from Buraydah bin Al-Husayb, `Ikrimah, Qatadah and Az-Zuhri that it was Antioch. Some of the Imams were not sure that it was Antioch, as we shall see below after telling the rest of the story, if Allah wills.</p><div class="arabic uthmani">إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا</div><p>(When We sent to them two Messengers, they denied them both;) means, they hastened to disbelieve in them.</p><div class="arabic uthmani">فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍ</div><p>(so We reinforced them with a third,) means, `We supported and strengthened them with a third Messenger. …

Coin for them a similitude: The people of the city when those sent (from Allah) came unto them;

Set forth to them, by way of a parable, the (story of) the Companions of the City. Behold!, there came messengers to it.

And put forward to them a similitude; the (story of the) dwellers of the town, [It is said that the town was Antioch (Antakiya)], when there came Messengers to them.

And cite for them the parable of the landlords of the town—when the messengers came to it.