ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ
Aakhizeena maaa aataahum Rabbuhum; innahum kaanoo qabla zaalika muhsineen
Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.
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4 ayahs in Adh-Dhaariyat are strongly about the qualities of the believers. This is one of them.
Tafsir
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receiving ākhidhīna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person of the predicate of inna ‘truly’ what their Lord has given them of reward for indeed formerly before their entering Paradise they had been virtuous in the world.
Related Hadiths
Hakim bin Hizam said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I used to do good deeds in the Pre-Islamic period of
Ignorance, e.g., keeping good relations with my Kith and kin, manumitting slaves and giving alms.
Shall I receive a reward for all that?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, "You embraced Islam with all the good
deeds which you did in the past."
I said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), "Before embracing Islam I used to do good deeds like giving in charity,
slave-manumitting, and the keeping of good relations with Kith and kin. Shall I be rewarded for those
deeds?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "You became Muslim with all those good deeds (Without losing their
reward)."
That he said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What do you think about my good deeds which I used to do during
the period of ignorance (before embracing Islam) like keeping good relations with my Kith and kin,
manumitting of slaves and giving alms etc; Shall I receive the reward for that?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said,
"You have embraced Islam with all those good deeds which you did.
That the Prophet (ﷺ) used to accept a gift and make return for it.
From the Prophet (ﷺ), that Kisra sent him a gift so he accepted, and that kings gave him gifts and he accepted them.
There is something about this from Jabir. This is a Hasan Gharib Hadith. Thuwair (a narrator in the chain) is Ibn Abi Fakhitah, whose name was Sa'eed bin 'Illaqah, and Thuwair's Kunyah was Abu Jahm.
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