Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins

The Qur'an, in its second chapter, Al-Baqara, Quran 2:259, mentions a parable, concerning a man who passed by a hamlet in ruins, and asked himself how God will be able to resurrect the dead on the Day of Judgement.

[1] Another is Nehemiah's visit to Jerusalem in ruins after the Captivity[1] and to Ezra, the scribe, priest and reformer, about whom many similar tales have come down in Jewish tradition over time.

The Qur'an narrates in Quran 2:259 that a man passed by a hamlet in ruins, where the people who lived there had died generations earlier, and then asked himself how God will be able to resurrect the dead on the Day of Judgment.

The Qur'an goes on to say that God subsequently caused the man to die for a hundred years, and then raised him to life again.

And then, by God's power, the bones joined right in front of his eyes, and the body clothed itself in muscles, flesh and blood, resulting in the donkey coming back to life.