Muslim voyagers need to know whether it is admissible to visit, appreciate constantly the city of Petra in Jordan which used to be the capital of the Nabatean civilisation. They likewise need to know something similar about the second biggest city of that civilisation which is called al-Hijr and is in Saudi Arabia. The space of al-Hijr is currently known as 'Mada'in Salih' (The Cities of the Prophet Salih), driving a lot of Muslims to imagine that the obliterated individuals of Thamud, to whom the Prophet Salih was sent, were the Nabatean public.
They in this manner wonder about the decorum and passability of visiting Petra and Mada'in Salih for the travel industry (the new Saudi vacationer visa has opened up the chance of visiting Mada'in Salih as a traveler).
The basic answer is this: The Thamud were by all account not the only civilisation that constructed houses in rough mountains. Petra was home to the Nabatean civilisation, which was not the Thamud, and which was not obliterated by God. Subsequently according to an Islamic perspective, a Muslim traveler should go ahead and appreciate visiting Petra as they would any old authentic site of importance or excellence. With respect to al-Hijr in Saudi Arabia, it was home to more than one civilisation. One of those civilisations that lived there was obliterated by God – and it might be the Thamud of Prophet Salih. God (swt) said in the Qur'an:
"Individuals of al-Hijr additionally dismissed Our Messengers. We offered them Our hints, however they turned their backs. They cut out residences in the mountains, and lived in security. Yet, the impact overpowered them promptly toward the beginning of the day." [Qur'an 15:80-84]
The greater part of the remnants that can be found at al-Hijr today, in any case, don't have a place with that civilisation, yet rather to the Nabateans who came after them and set up their second significant city there. However, on account of the other civilisation that had lived there previously, it is of Islamic behavior not to spend quite a while there, and not to 'appreciate' visiting it, yet to notice from the destiny of what befell its previous occupants. That doesn't mean, in any case, that one can't appreciate or contemplate the remains left there by the Nabatean public – in spite of the fact that it is ideal to do as such from far off. Whether the civilisation that was cleared out in al-Hijr is that of the Prophet Salih is a significant one, on the grounds that the vestiges there today were worked around 2,000 years after the obliteration of Salih's kin, and it would be a grave blunder to accept that what remains there today had a place with them, or to imagine that this is the thing that the Qur'an is saying.Abdullah ibn Umar portrayed that when the Messenger of God ﷺ went with his Companions to Tabuk (in northwestern Saudi Arabia today), they passed by the site of al-Hijr. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Don't enter the homes of the individuals who were rebuffed by God aside from while crying. Assuming you are not crying, don't enter their residences in case you be burdened with what distressed them.' He then, at that point veiled his face with his mantle and rode quicker until they crossed the valley.'1
In another portrayal, Ibn Umar told an alternate piece of the story: God's Messenger tracked down that a portion of the Muslims who were going in front of him had halted in the residences of individuals of al-Hijr to draw water from the well there. They drank from this water, topped off their water skins from it, and furthermore utilized it to blend in with their grains and make batter. At the point when he ﷺ heard this, he told them to spill out the water in their water skins and to discard the batter they had made with it.2
In all the most true and broadly verified renditions of this hadith, these individuals are not related with the Thamud however just alluded to as 'individuals of al-Hijr' as the Qur'an calls them. Most Qur'an pundits have accepted that individuals of al-Hijr are themselves the Thamud that Prophet Salih was shipped off, on the grounds that both cut into the stone and both were cleared out by a 'impact/yell.' This conviction shows up in certain phrasings of the hadith above, where a portion of the storytellers, after the notice of 'al-Hijr,' have added: 'the place where there is the Thamud.' These words were added concerning the setting of the hadith, and were not added to the platitudes or activities of God's Messenger himself. These are augmentations made by later storytellers who basically accepted that al-Hijr was the home of the Thamud, and we need not stress over these increases or depend on them to demonstrate or refute anything.
Presently this is a complex multi-layered issue that can't be effortlessly settled, however it doesn't make any difference in the end whether 'Individuals of al-Hijr' referenced in the Qur'an were the Thamud of Prophet Salih, on the grounds that what is important is that they were individuals rebuffed by God. Indeed it was a result of 'Individuals of al-Hijr,' paying little heed to who they truly were, that we know the Sunna of rushing across the grounds of rebuffed individuals while inferring God's massive force and keeping in mind that acting in a properly unfortunate and respectful way.
What we can be sure of is that none of the chronicled stays in al-Hijr have a place with individuals that Prophet Salih was shipped off, however they may indeed have a place with a lot later group who likewise considered themselves the Thamud. These contemporary Thamud may conceivably be relatives of survivors from the first Thamud, or of a gathering from the Thamud who were not rebuffed. With respect to the Thamud of Prophet Salih, they lived right around 2,000 years before the vestiges of different civilisations that stay in al-Hijr. That is the reason there is a solid case to imagine that these were truth be told an alternate group. An issue possibly emerges on the off chance that we imagine that the Quran and Hadith were alluding to the remains of al-Hijr as the abodes of Salih's kin, as a result of the incredible contrast in the age of every civilisation.
