Which Surah and Juz is Quran 7:170 from?

This ayah is from Surah Al-A'raaf (The Heights), the 7th surah of the Quran. It appears in Juz 9.

Are there hadiths related to Quran 7:170?

Yes — there are 4 hadiths related to this ayah from Sahih Muslim, Sunan an-Nasa'i, Sunan Ibn Majah.

What tafsir is available for Quran 7:170?

Commentary on this ayah is available from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Kathir, Al-Jalalayn — classical scholars of Quranic exegesis.

What topics does Quran 7:170 relate to?

This ayah connects to these Quranic topics: Prayer, Divine Justice, Patience, Taqwa, Guidance.

Ayah 169

فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌۭ وَرِثُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَ...

7:170Al-A'raaf

Q: What does Quran 7:170 mean?

Quran 7:170 (Surah Al-A'raaf, Ayah 170) translates to: "But those who hold fast to the Book and establish prayer - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of the reformers."

Ayah 171

۞ وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا ٱلْجَبَلَ فَوْقَهُمْ كَأَنَّهُۥ...

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُمَسِّكُونَ بِٱلْكِتَٰبِ وَأَقَامُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ إِنَّا لَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُصْلِحِينَ

Wallazeena yumas sikoona bil Kitaabi wa aqaamus Salaata innaa laa nudee'uajral musliheen

But those who hold fast to the Book and establish prayer - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of the reformers.

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Prayer92 Qualities of the believers90 The Quran & revelation87 True success & loss67 Patience54

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7:170Ayah 1206

2 ayahs in Al-A'raaf are strongly about prayer. This is one of them.

← Previous on Prayer7:29Say, [O Muhammad], "My Lord has ordered justice and that you maintain yourselves [in worship of Him] at every place [or time] of prostration, and invoke Him,

Tafsir

Scholars largely agree on this ayah

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And those who adhere read yumassikūn or yumsikūn to the Scripture from among them and have established prayer the likes of ‘Abd Allāh b. Salām and his companions verily We shall not let the wages of reformers go to waste innā lā nudī‘u ajra l-muslihīn the sentence is the predicate of alladhīna ‘those who’; also there is here the replacing of the third person pronominalisation alladhīna ‘those who’ with an overt noun al-muslihīna ‘reformers’ in other words their wages.

He who does not recite Fatihat al-Kitab is not credited with having observed the prayer.

Sunan an-Nasa'i #857It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:Sahih

"Whoever performs wudu' and does it well, then sets out for the Masjid and finds that the people have already prayed, Allah will decree for him a reward like that of those who attended (the prayer), without reducing the slightest from their reward."

Sahih Muslim #779Mahmud b. al-Rabi', on whose face the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) squirted water from the well, reported on the authority of 'Ubada b. as- Samit that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:Sahih

He who does not recite Umm al-Qur'an is not credited with having observed prayer.

Sunan Ibn Majah #575It was narrated that from ‘Amr bin Shu’aib, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:Sahih

“Every prayer in which Fatihatil-Kitab (the Opening of the Book) is not recited, it is deficient, it is deficient.”