﴿ كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلرَّسِّ وَثَمُودُ ﴾

“[Long] before those [who now deny resur­rection] did Noah’s people give the lie to this truth, and [so did] the folk of Ar-Rass, and [the tribes of] Thamud”

The people of Noah denied before them kadhdhabat has a feminine person inflection because of the feminine gender of the import of qawm ‘people’ and so did the dwellers at al-Rass — this was the name of a well around which they dwelt together with their livestock; they worshipped idols and it is said that their prophet was one Hanzala b. Safwān; but some say that he was some other person — and Thamūd the people of Sālih