Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 65

Al-Anbiyaa · Ayah 65 · View Ayah

ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمْ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ يَنطِقُونَ

Then they reversed themselves, [saying], "You have already known that these do not speak!"

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

Then they were turned by God on their heads that is to say they were made to return to their disbelief and said ‘By God you are certainly aware that these idols cannot speak’ in other words how can you thus command us to question them?

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(And they were utterly confounded) and went back to their initial statement, (and they said) Nimrod said: (Well thou knowest) O Abraham (that these speak not) that the idols do not speak, and this is why you broke them.

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‘Go back to such-and-such narration‘. Then , we abandoned listening to Ḥadīth from them’.

Narrated by Muhammad bin Abbād and Sa’īd bin Amr al-Ash’athī narrated to me on authority of Ibn Uyaynah; Sa’īd said Sufyān informed us on authority of Hishām bin Hujayr, on authority of Tāwus, he said (Bushayr bin Ka’b) came to Ibn Abbās so he set about narrating to him. Ibn Abbās said to him: