Hizb 46 closes As-Saffat with the story of Jonah, cast out of the fish sick and exposed, sheltered by a gourd vine grown for him, and sent afterward to a community of a hundred thousand people who this time believed him, before the sura closes rejecting the pre-Islamic Arab claim that angels were daughters of God and exalting God above every such description.
The hizb then carries the whole of Sad, named for the Arabic letter opening it, retelling David's repentance after a personal test framed around a dispute he judged, Solomon's remorse after his fondness for fine horses distracted him from prayer, and Job's affliction and eventual restoration, alongside brief mentions of Ishmael, Elisha and Dhul-Kifl. It retells Iblis's refusal to bow before Adam once more, with Iblis vowing to mislead all of humanity except God's sincerely devoted servants.
The hizb closes opening Az-Zumar, the Groups, demanding sincerity in worship and posing a pointed question: whether someone who spends the night in devoted prayer, fearful of what comes after death and hoping for mercy, can possibly be equal to someone who does not.
David and Solomon appear across several hizb divisions in this account, in Al-Anbiya, in An-Naml, and now in Sad, and each telling emphasizes a different facet of the same two figures, judgment and craft in one, diplomacy in another, and here, in Sad, a very human capacity for distraction and repentance.