Maarif-ul-Quran (En) - Al-Kahf : 77
فَانْطَلَقَا١ٙ حَتّٰۤى اِذَاۤ اَتَیَاۤ اَهْلَ قَرْیَةِ اِ۟سْتَطْعَمَاۤ اَهْلَهَا فَاَبَوْا اَنْ یُّضَیِّفُوْهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِیْهَا جِدَارًا یُّرِیْدُ اَنْ یَّنْقَضَّ فَاَقَامَهٗ١ؕ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَیْهِ اَجْرًا
Then, they moved ahead until they came to the people of a town; they asked its people for food and they re-fused to host them. Then, they found there a wall tending to fall. So he set it right. He (Musa) said, "Had you wished, you could have charged a fee for it."
The habitation mentioned أَهْلَ قَرْ‌يَةٍ (the people of a town - 77) which Sayyidna Musa and al-Khadir (علیہ السلام) passed through and whose inhabitants refused to host them was Antakiah, as in the report of Sayyidna Ibn ` Abbas ؓ ، and Aikah, as in the report of Ibn Sirin. It has also been reported from Sayyidna Abu Hurairah ؓ that it was some habitation of al-Andulus (Spain) (Mazhari). Allah knows best.
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