عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ
'Abasa wa tawallaa.
The Prophet frowned and turned away
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He the Prophet frowned glowered with his face and turned away
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“He frowned and turned away” was revealed about Ibn Umm Maktum the blind man. He came to the Messenger of Allah saying: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Guide me.’ At that time, there was a revered man from the idolaters with the Messenger of Allah. So the Messenger of Allah turned away from him and faced the other man, saying: ‘Do you think that there is something wrong with what I am saying?’ He said: ‘No.’ So it was about that that it was revealed.”
The Prophet smiled.
The Prophet looked away, he threw it away. He said: "I think that he hurt you or we made you lose money."
A man came from Najran to the Messenger of Allah turned away from him, and said: "You have come to me with a coal of fire on your hand."
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jabir b. Samura through another chain of transmitters with the difference that along with the mentioning (of the fact) that he (the Holy Prophet) turned him away twice, or thrice.
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