George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discource (1734)

The most famous tribes amongst these ancient Arabians were Ad, Thamûd, Tasm, Jadîs, the former Jorham, and Amalek.

The tribe of Ad.
The tribe of Ad were descended from Ad, the son of Aws ¹, the son of Aram ², the son of Sem, the son of Noah, who after the confusion of tongues settled in al Ahkâf, or the winding sands in the province of Hadramaut, where his posterity greatly multiplyed. Their first king was Shedâd the son of Ad, of whom the eastern writers deliver many fabulous things, particularly that he finished the magnificent city his father had begun, wherein he built a fine palace, adorned with delicious gardens, to embellish which he spared neither cost nor labour, proposing thereby to create in his subjects a superstitious veneration of himself as a God ³. This garden or paradise was called the garden of Irem, and is mentioned in the Korân ⁴, and often alluded to by the oriental writers. The city, they tell us, is still standing in the desarts of Aden, being preserved by providence as a monument of divine justice, tho’ it be invisible, unless very rarely, when God permits it to be seen, a favour one Colabah pretended to have received in the reign of the Khalîf Moâwiyah, who sending for him to know the truth of the matter, Colabah related his whole adventure; that as he was seeking a camel he had lost, he found himself on a sudden at the gates of this city, and entering it faw not one inhabitant, at which being terrified, he stayed no longer than to take with him some fine stones which he shewed the Khalîf ⁵;

The descendants of Ad in process of time falling from the worship of the true God into idolatry, God sent the prophet Hûd (who is generally agreed to be Heber ⁶) to preach to and reclaim them. But they refusing to acknowledge his mission, or to obey him, God sent a hot and suffocating wind, which blew seven nights and eight days together, and entring at their nostrils past thro’ their bodies ⁷, and destroyed them all, a very few only excepted, who had believed in Hûd, and retired with him to another place ⁸. That prophet afterwards returned into Hadramaut, and was buried near Hasec, where there is a small town now standing called Kabr Hûd, or the sepulchre of Hûd. Before the Adites were thus severely punished, God to humble them, and incline them to hearken to the preaching of his prophet, afflicted them with a drought for four years, fo that all their cattle perished, and themselves were very near it; upon which