147 Preface وَأَرسَلناهُ إِلىٰ مِائَةِ أَلفٍ أَو يَزيدونَYusuf AliAnd We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand1 (men) or more.The city of Nineveh was a very large city. The Old Testament says: “ Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey” (Jonah, 3:3); “wherein are more than six score thousand persons” (Jonah, 4:11). In other words its circuit was about 45 miles, and its population was over a hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants.