﴿ كَذَّبَ أَصْحَٰبُ لْـَٔيْكَةِ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ ﴾

“[AND] the dwellers of the wooded dales [of Madyan] gave the lie to [one of God’s] message-bearers”

The dwellers in the wood a variant reading for ashābu’l-aykati has ashābu laykata a thicket of trees near Midian denied the messengers