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Surah 37. As-Saffat, Ayah 147

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وَأَرْسَلْنَـٰهُ إِلَىٰ مِا۟ئَةِ أَلْفٍ أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ
Waarsaln a hu il a miati alfin aw yazeedoon a
And [then] We sent him [once again] to [his people,] a hundred thousand [souls] or more:
  - Mohammad Asad
Then We sent him to a nation of one hundred thousand people or more.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
We 'later' sent him 'back' to 'his city of' at least one hundred thousand people,
  - Mustafa Khattab
And We sent him to a hundred thousand (folk) or more
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more. 4127
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The city of Nineveh was a very large city. Tbe Old Testament says: "Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey" (Jonah, iii. 3); "wherein are more than six score thousand persons" (Jonah, iv. 11). In other words its circuit was about 45 miles, and its population was over a hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants.

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