وأبعد من ذلك وأعرق في الوهم ما يتناقله المفسّرون في تفسير سورة «والفجر» في قوله تعالى (أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعادٍ إِرَمَ ذاتِ الْعِماد) فيجعلون لفظة إرم اسما لمدينة وصفت بأنّها ذات عماد أي أساطين وينقلون أنّه كان لعاد بن عوص بن إرم ابنان هما شديد وشدّاد ملكا من بعده وهلك شديد فخلص الملك لشدّاد ودانت له ملوكهم وسمع وصف الجنّة فقال لأبنينّ مثلها فبنى مدينة إرم في صحارى عدن في مدّة ثلاثمائة سنة وكان عمره تسعمائة سنة وأنّها مدينة عظيمة قصورها من الذّهب وأساطينها من الزّبرجد والياقوت وفيها أصناف الشّجر والأنهار المطّردة
Even more unlikely and more deeply rooted in baseless assumptions is the common interpretation of the following verse of the Surat al-Fajr Did you not see what your Lord did with 'Ad -Iram, that of the pillars? The commentators consider the word Iram the name of a city which is described as having pillars, that is, columns. They report that 'Ad b. 'Us b. Iram had two sons, Shadid and Shaddid, who ruled after him. Shadid perished. Shaddad became the sole ruler of the realm, and the kings there submitted to his authority. When Shaddad heard a description of Paradise, he said I shall build something like it. And he built the city of Iram in the desert of Aden over a period of three hundred years. He himself lived nine hundred years. It is said to have been a large city, with castles of gold and silver and columns of emerald and hyacinth, containing all kinds of trees and freely flowing rivers