17198 - ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, Nasr ibn ‘Ali reported to us, Nuh ibn Qays reported to us, ‘Awn ibn Shaddad said: Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, sent Noah to his people when he was three hundred and fifty years old. He called them for a thousand years minus fifty years, and then he lived for three hundred and fifty years after that.

[His saying, the Exalted: "Then the Flood seized them"]

[The first interpretation]

17199 - My father narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Sa‘id al-Asbahani reported to us, Yahya ibn Thaman reported to us, from al-Minhal ibn Khalifah, from al-Hajjaj, from al-Hakim ibn Mayta, from ‘A’ishah, from the Prophet (peace be upon him) regarding his saying: "Then the Flood seized them," he said: The flood is death.

The second interpretation:

17200 - Abu Zur‘ah narrated to us, Minjab ibn al-Harith reported to us, Bishr reported to us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding his saying: "The flood," he said: Rain by night and day for eight days.

It is narrated from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr and al-Suddi that they said: The rain.

The third interpretation:

17201 - My father narrated to us, Yahya ibn al-Mughirah reported to us, Jarir reported to us, from Qabus, from his father, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding his saying: "The flood," a command from the command of your Lord. Then he recited: "Then there circled about it a visitor from your Lord."

The fourth interpretation:

17202 - Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Harithi reported to us, from Juwaybir, from al-Dahhak: The flood is the drowning.

The fifth interpretation:

17203 - It was mentioned from Abu ‘Asim, from ‘Isa ibn Maymun, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid: The flood is the water and the plague.

17204 - My father narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Wahb ibn ‘Atiyyah al-Dimashqi reported to us, al-Haytham ibn ‘Imran al-‘Absi reported to us, he said: I heard Isma‘il ibn ‘Ubayd saying: The flood that drowned the people was in the month of Nisan.