سورة يونس

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): [In explanation of Allah's saying فَالْیَوْمَ نُنَجِّیکَ بِبَدَنِکَ (So this day We will deliver you with your body)] Musa (peace be upon him) informed the children of Israel that Allah had drowned Fir'awn; but they did not believe him. So Allah commanded the sea to cast his corpse onto the shore, so that the children of Israel might see him dead.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): The companions of Fir'awn all entered the water of the sea [and drowned in it] and no trace of them remained; then the bodies of all of them [directly] entered the Fire — except for the corpse of Fir'awn, whose body alone Allah cast onto the shore, so that the people might see and recognise him, so that it might be a sign for those who came after, and so that no one would doubt his death, for they had taken him as their god. Therefore Allah showed him to them as a carcass thrown onto the shore, so that he might be a lesson and warning for those to come. وَ إِنَّ کَثیراً مِنَ النَّاسِ عَنْ آیاتِنا لَغافِلُونَ [And indeed most of the people are heedless of Our signs].

Imam Rida (peace be upon him): In the vanguard of Fir'awn's army were six hundred thousand thousand and two hundred thousand, and in its rear were one thousand thousand, and they all entered the sea and drowned. And this saying of Allah فَالْیَوْمَ نُنَجِّیکَ بِبَدَنِکَ لِتَکُونَ لِمَنْ خَلْفَکَ آیَةً [So this day We will deliver you with your body, that you may be a sign to those after you] says [O Fir'awn]! We will cast your body upon a high place of the ground, so that it may be a sign and a lesson for those who come after you.