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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:27:69 –

Say, ˹O Muhammad˺, "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of the criminals."  

Say: ‘Travel in the land and see how was the sequel for the criminals’, because of their denials — and this ˹sequel˺ is that they were destroyed with punishment.
القرآن:٢٧:٦٩ –

قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ  

{قل سيروا في الأرض فانظروا كيف كان عاقبة المجرمين} بإنكارهم، وهي هلاكهم بالعذاب.

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Collected by Qurʾān
quran:6:11 –

Say, "Travel through the land; then observe how was the end of the deniers."  

Say, to them: ‘Travel in the land, and see the nature of the consequence for the deniers’, of the messengers, how they were destroyed through chastisement; perhaps they will take heed.
القرآن:٦:١١ –

قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ انْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ  

{قل} لهم {سيروا في الأرض ثم انظروا كيف كان عاقبة المكذبين} الرسل من هلاكهم بالعذاب ليعتبروا.
quran:3:137 –

Similar situations ˹as yours˺ have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.  

The following was revealed regarding the defeat at Uhud: Ways of life have passed away before you, all manner of unbelief has preceded, where they have been given respite but are then seized ˹with punishment˺; so travel in the land, O believers, and behold how was the end of those who denied, the messengers, that is, how their affair ended in destruction. So do not grieve on account of their victory, I am only giving them respite until their appointed time.
القرآن:٣:١٣٧ –

قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ سُنَنٌ فَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ  

ونزل في هزيمة أحد {قد خلَت} مضت {من قبلكم سُنَن} طرائق في الكفار بإمهالهم ثم أخذهم {فسيروا} أيها المؤمنون {في الأرض فانظروا كيف كان عاقبة المكذبين} الرسل أي آخر أمرهم من الهلاك فلا تحزنوا لغلبتهم فإنا أمهلناهم لوقتهم.
quran:7:84 –

And We rained upon them a rain ˹of stones˺. Then see how was the end of the criminals.  

And We rained upon them a rain, the stones of baked clay (hijārat al-sijjīl), and it destroyed them. So behold what was the end of the sinners!
القرآن:٧:٨٤ –

وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَطَرًا ۖ فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ  

{وأمطرنا عليهم مطرا} هو حجارة السجيل فأهلكتهم {فانظر كيف كان عاقبة المجرمين}.
quran:30:42 –

Say, ˹O Muhammad˺, "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of those before. Most of them were associators ˹of others with Allah˺.  

Say, to the Meccan disbelievers: ‘Travel in the land and behold how was the consequence for those who were before; most of them were idolaters’, and so they were destroyed because of their idolatry, and their dwellings and habitations lie ˹desolate˺ in ruin.
القرآن:٣٠:٤٢ –

قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۚ كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ مُشْرِكِينَ  

{قل} لكفار مكة {سيروا في الأرض فانظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبل كان أكثرهم مشركين} فأهلكوا بإشراكهم ومساكنهم ومنازلهم خاوية.
quran:37:73 –

Then look how was the end of those who were warned -  

So behold how was the consequence for them who were warned, namely, the disbelievers: in other words the sequel for them was ˹that they ended up in˺ the chastisement;
القرآن:٣٧:٧٣ –

فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُنْذَرِينَ  

{فانظر كيف كان عاقبة المنذَرين} الكافرين: أي عاقبتهم العذاب.