9وَثَمودَ الَّذينَ جابُوا الصَّخرَ بِالوادِMuhammad Asadand with [the tribe of] Thamud,1 who hollowed out rocks in the valley?See surah 7, notes 56 and 59. The "valley" referred to in the sequence is the Wadi 'l-Qura, situated north of Medina on the ancient caravan route from South Arabia to Syria.