إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا۟ ءَابَآءَهُمْ ضَآلِّينَ
Innahum alfaw aabaaa'ahum daaalleen
Indeed they found their fathers astray.
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Lessons from past peoples
37:69Ayah 1182
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Lo! they found their fathers to be astray
Related Hadiths
BY Allah, both fathers of yours are amongst those who have been men. tioned in this verse:" Those who responded to the call of Allah and the Messenger after the misfortune had fallen upon thein".
Do not detest your fathers; he who detested his father committed infidelity.
“It is disbelief for a
man
to attribute himself to someone other than his father knowingly,
or to
deny his connection to his father, even subtly.”*
That his father was amongst those who had given the Pledge of allegiance (to the Prophet (ﷺ) ) beneath
the Tree, and the next year when they went towards the Tree, they were not able to recognize it.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hishan through the same chain of transmitters but with this addition (that by both fathers of yours) he meant Abu Bakr and Zubair.
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