{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_sal00_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_sal00_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_sal00_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/sal00.htm","summary":"This is a religious/hagiographic text from the Islamic tradition recounting the story of the Prophet S\u00e2lih and the tribe of Thamud, drawing on Quranic passages and hadith traditions attributed to Imams Al-B\u00e2qir and Al-S\u00e2diq (indicating a Shia scholarly perspective). The central narrative follows S\u00e2lih's century-long mission to convert his people from idol worship, culminating in a public contest where he challenges their seventy idols to respond to prayer \u2014 they fail \u2014 and then miraculously produces a she-camel from a rock as proof of God's power. The she-camel becomes a divine test: allocated alternating days at the water source, she provides miraculous milk, but the tribe eventually conspires to kill her and her foal, with a notorious outcast carrying out the slaughter. S\u00e2lih warns them of a three-day countdown to destruction, marked by their faces turning yellow, then red, then black \u2014 and on the third night the angel Gabriel's cry kills them all, followed by divine fire. A distinctive scholarly note closes the account: the author distinguishes between what the Quran itself states (the camel's miraculous significance and prohibition against harming her) and the narrative details about her emerging from a rock, which come only from prophetic traditions and Imami commentary, with the author privileging the Household of Muhammad as the most authoritative interpretive source. The text will interest readers studying Islamic prophetology, Quranic exegesis, or Shia hadith tradition as applied to pre-Islamic prophetic narratives.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: S\u00e2lih:...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2207}