Abdullah bin Abbas reported,
The people of Mecca asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to turn Mount Safa into gold for them and to remove the surrounding mountains so they could cultivate the land. Allah 
said, "If you wish, I will grant them what they ask, but if they then disbelieve, they will be destroyed just as those before them were destroyed. And if you wish, I will give them more time, perhaps some of their offspring may believe."He said, "No, give them more time."So Allah revealed this verse, "And nothing prevented Us from sending the signs except that the former peoples denied them. And We gave Thamud the she-camel as a visible sign" [Isra 17:59].
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Sahihعن عبد الله بن عباس، قال
سأل أهل مكة رسول الله ﷺ أن يجعل لهم الصفا ذهبا، وأن ينحي عنهم الجبال، فيزدرعوا، قال الله عز وجل: إن شئت أنبأتهم ما سألوا، فإن كفروا أهلكوا كما أهلك من قبلهم، وإن شئت نستأني بهم، لعلنا ننتج منهم. فقال: لا بل أستأني بهم. فأنزل الله هذه الآية: {وما منعنا أن نرسل بالآيات إلا أن كذب بها الأولون وآتينا ثمود الناقة مبصرة}.
Narrated by Ahmad (2333), Nasai in Al-Kubra (11226), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (2225), Hakim (2/362), and Diya in Al-Mukhtarah (10/78-80), all of them through Jareer bin Abdul-Hameed, from Amash, from Jafar bin Iyas, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Abdullah bin Abbas, who said, and then he related it.Bazzar said, "We do not know of it being narrated from the Prophet ﷺ through any sahih route except this one."Hakim said, "This is a hadith sahih in its isnad."