I am confused about what you mean by this. Believe me, I have met salafs who literally believe the earth is flat because they take scriptures word for word. When you tell them the Islamic historical context of the tafsirs that state this. They turn their brains off and decide nope because ibn abbas was a close sahaba of the prophet and a cousin and his tafsir builds upon the earth is flat then nope we must believe that. Its madness.
What are you talking about. Salafis believe the earth is round.