وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ
Wa laa yoosiqu wasaaqa hooo ahad
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
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89:26Ayah 130
4 ayahs in Al-Fajr are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
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and likewise none shall bind read yūthiqu His bind a variant reading has yu‘adhdhabu ‘none shall be chastised’ and yūthaqu ‘none shall be bound’ so that the suffixed pronoun of ‘adhābahu and wathāqahu refers to the chastisement and the binds of the disbeliever the meaning then being ‘none shall be chastised as he shall and none shall be bound as he shall be bound’.
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A man whom the Prophet (ﷺ) made the following verse read informed me, or he was informed by a man whom a man made the following verse read through a man whom the Prophet (ﷺ) made the following verse read: "For, that day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can be inflicted (la yu'adhdhabu)
Abu Dawud said: 'Asim, al-A'mash, Talhah b. Musarrif, Abu Ja'far Yazid b. al-Qa'qa', Shaibah b. Nassah, Nafi' b. 'Abd al-Rahman, 'Abd Allah b. Kathir al-Dari, Abu 'Amr b. al-'Ala', Hamzat al-Zayyat, 'Abd al-Rahman al-A'raj, Qatadah, al-Hasan al-Basri, Mujahid, Hamid al=A'raj, Abd Allah b. 'Abbas and 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr recited: "For,that day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict (la ya'adhdhibu), and His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind (wa la yathiqu), except the verse mentioned in this tradition from the Prophet (ﷺ). It has een read yu'adhdhabu with short vowel a in passive voice.
That the Prophet (ﷺ) made a man read the verse: "For, that day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can be chastised. And his bonds will be such as none (other) can be bound.
Abu Dawud said: According to some (scholars), there is a narrator between the narrator Khalid and Abu Qilabah.
None should be given more than ten lashes, but in case of any Hadd out of the Huded of Allah.
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