Ya-Sin 36:16

<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. …

They answered: Our Lord knoweth that we are indeed sent unto you,

They said: "Our Lord doth know that we have been sent on a mission to you:

The Messengers said: "Our Lord knows that we have been sent as Messengers to you,

They said, “Our Lord knows that we are messengers to you.