مُّتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَيْهَا مُتَقَٰبِلِينَ
Muttaki'eena 'alaihaa mutaqabileen
Reclining on them, facing each other.
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Paradise & Hell
56:16Ayah 196
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reclining on them face to face muttaki’īna ‘alayhā mutaqābilīna constitute two circumstantial qualifiers referring to the subject person of the predicate ‘they’.
Related Hadiths
"I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reclining upon as pillow, on his left side."
I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) lying on his back in the mosque and putting one of his legs over the other.
When I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) in his house, I saw him sitting reclining on a pillow. The narrator Ibn al-Jarrah added: "on his left side".
Abu Dawud said: Ishaq b. Mansur transmitted it from Isra'il, also mentioning the words "on his left side".
‘Abbad b. Tamim quoted his paternal uncle as saying that he had seen the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) lying on his back in the mosque according to Qa’nabi’s version) placing one foot over the other.
I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) lying-down in the mosque and placing one leg on the other.
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