People of Ya-Sin

According to the Quran, God sent two prophets to this particular community.{{cite quran|36|13|s=ns}} When the people of the city refused to hear their words, God sent a third prophet to strengthen them. The prophets told the people: "Truly we have been sent on a mission to you".{{cite quran|36|14|s=ns}} The community mocked the message of the prophets and said “You are only humans like us, and the Most Compassionate has not revealed anything. You are simply lying!”{{cite quran|36|15|s=ns}} The prophets, in reply, rebuked the community, saying: "Our Lord doth know that we have been sent on a mission to you: "And our duty is only to proclaim the clear Message."{{cite quran|36|16|e=17|s=ns}}

The Quran goes onto say that the prophets were threatened with stoning and torture,{{cite quran|36|18|s=ns}} but they refused to give in and continued to warn the people to end their sinful ways. Then, from the farthest part of the city, there came running a man who exhorted the people to believe the message and told them: "O my people! Obey the messengers: "Obey those who ask no reward of you (for themselves), and who have themselves received Guidance.{{cite quran|36|20|e=21|s=ns}} The following verses, which describe the man's entrance in to "the garden" (Jannah), which refers to Heaven, has been interpreted by some scholars to mean that the believing man was martyred for his faith.Stories of the Prophets, Ibn Kathir, People of Ya-Sin

File:Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz. - Paul and Barnabas at Lystra - 1650.jpg's depiction of Paul and Barnabas at Lystra, an incident which has often been compared to the Qur'anic narrative of the "Companions of the City"]]

Classical commentators on the Quran popularly identified the "People of the City" with the city of Antioch. Those scholars who identified the city with Antioch, however, were divided over the date of the event. One group believed that this event took place after Jesus and explained that the Quran's use of the word "Messenger" in this context refers not to three prophets but to three of Jesus's disciples who were sent to Antioch to proclaim the message. The name of this martyr is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in Qur'an or Hadith, though he is known as The Believer of YaSin.Muhammad, Martin Lings, Chapter XXVIII Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir (Commentary) on Quran 36 references a narration that identifies the three disciples sent were Sham'un (Simon Peter), Yuhanna (John) and the name of the third was Bulus (Paul).(Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), Volume 8, Surat Al-Ahzab, Verse 51 to the end of Surat Ad-Dukhan, abridged under a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors Riyadh, Houston, New York, London, Lahore; First Edition, September 2000], p. 179)https://quranx.com/tafsirs/36.13 Other commentators who believe that the city does refer to Antioch explained that this is the narrative of a far older incident, and that the three "messengers" mentioned were indeed prophets, namely Saduq, Masduq and Shalum.A-Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism, Wheeler, People of Ya-Sin

Abdullah Yusuf Ali did link the narrative of the story with the preaching of Paul and Barnabas as described in Acts of the Apostles.Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, note. 3959: "Cf. Acts, 14:15, where Paul and Barnabas say, in the city of Lystra near the modern Konia, 'We also are men with like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities...'". As with Antioch, the city of Jerusalem is also not directly mentioned by name in the Qur'an.Religious significance of Jerusalem

• Acts 13:4–5
• Acts 14:1–5, 8–13

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