فَلَمَّا كَانَ نِصْفُ اللَّيْلِ أَتَاهُمْ جَبْرَئِيلُ (عليه...

And during those three days they had been applying camphor upon themselves, and shrouding themselves, and they knew that the Punishment would be descending upon them. All of them died in the blink of an eye, their young ones as well as their old ones. There did not remain for them a she-camel, or a sheep, or anything except that Allah -azwj Destroyed it. They had all died in their homes and on their beds. Then Allah -azwj Sent upon them Fire along with the Scream from the sky.

So, it burnt all of them, and this was their story’. [18] The slayer of the she-camel ابن شهر آشوب: عن أبي بكر بن مردويه في (فضائل أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام)، و أبو بكر الشيرازي في (نزول القرآن): أنه قال سعيد بن المسيب: كان علي (عليه السلام) يقرأ «إِذِ انْبَعَثَ أَشْقاها فو الذي نفسي بيده لتخضبن هذه من هذا Ibn Shehr Ashub, from Abu Bakr Bin Marduwiya in ‘Fazaail Amir-ul-Momineen -asws , and Abu Bakr Al-Shirazy in ‘Nuzool Al-Quran’, from Saeed Bin Al-Musayyab, who has said: ‘Ali -asws recited: When it’s wretched one was dispatched (to kill the she-camel) [91:12] , said: ‘By the One in Whose Hand is my -asws soul, it is the dyeing of this (beard) from this (blood of the head)’.