Companions of the Rass
Nation of the Quran
Companions of the Rassأصحاب الرس
The Quran gives no dateAl-Rass, Najd (one opinion)
The Quran names them twice among the nations that denied their messengers, beside the people of Nuh, Ad and Thamud (25:38, 50:12). It gives no details of their messenger or their sins.
What does the Quran say?
The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well and Thamud
Quran 50:12
How did they end?
Allah says He destroyed each of these nations completely (25:39).
What do historians say?
No site is known. Rass means a well or pit; commentators suggested places in Najd and Yamamah, or the region of the Aras river, but none is confirmed.
The lesson
Even nations whose stories are forgotten were warned before they were judged.
Who else is linked?
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Nations of the Quran
- People of Nuh
- Ad
- Thamud
- People of Lut
- Madyan
- Companions of the Thicket
- Companions of the Rass
- People of Tubba
- Saba (Sheba)
- Bani Israil
- People of Firaun
- People of Yunus
- The city of the Sleepers
- Companions of the Ditch
- Companions of the Elephant
- People of the Sabbath
- Yajuj and Majuj
- Quraysh
- Thaqif
- Hawazin
- Aws and Khazraj (the Ansar)
- The Romans (Rum)
- The Persians
- People of Ibrahim
- Jurhum
- People of Ilyas
- People of the Town (Ya-Sin)
- The Sabians
- The Magians (Majus)