Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 63
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَٰهَا فِتْنَةًۭ لِّلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Indeed, We have made it a torment for the wrongdoers.
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(Lo! We have appointed it) We mentioned it as (a torment) a trial (for wrong-doers) Abu Jahl and his host, for they said: the Zaqqum is nothing but dates and butter.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
We have indeed made it for that reason sc. its being a tree in the Fire a trial for the wrongdoers? namely for the disbelievers of Mecca for they said ‘Fire consumes trees so how can it make them grow forth?’