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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:15:4 –

And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

And We did not destroy any town (min qaryatin: min is extra), meaning, its inhabitants, but that it had a known decree, a ˹pre-˺determined term, after which it would be destroyed.

القرآن:١٥:٤ –

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَعْلُومٌ

{وما أهلكنا من} زائدة {قرية} أريد أهلها {إلا ولها كتاب} أجل {معلوم} محدود لإهلاكها.

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quran:26:208 –

And We did not destroy any city except that it had warners

And We have not destroyed any town but it had warners, messengers to warn its inhabitants;

القرآن:٢٦:٢٠٨ –

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا لَهَا مُنْذِرُونَ

{وما أهلكنا من قرية إلا لها منذرون} رسل تنذر أهلها.