مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَيْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِIt spared nothing that it reached,meaning, everything that the wind could destroy,إِلاَّ جَعَلَتْهُ كَالرَّمِيمِbut blew it into broken spreads of rotten ruins.meaning, made it just like a rotten and destroyed.Sa`id bin Al-Musayyib and others commented on:إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّيحَ الْعَقِيمَ (when We sent against them the barren wind), "Southerly winds."However, there is a Hadith in the Sahih from Shu`bah bin Al-Hakam, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, who said that the Messenger of Allah said,نُصِرْتُ بِالصَّبَا وَأُهْلِكَتْ عَادٌ بِالدَّبُورI have been made victorious with the Saba (easterly wind), and the people of `Ad were destroyed with the Dabur (westerly wind). Allah saying,وَفِي ثَمُودَ إِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَمَتَّعُوا حَتَّى حِينٍ