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Ashab al-Ukhdud

أصحاب الأخدود
Definition

The People of the Ditch — believers killed in trenches of fire for refusing to renounce faith (Qur'an 85:4-8). The structural model of religious martyrdom under tyranny.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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