Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Nisaa, Ayah 53
أَمْ لَهُمْ نَصِيبٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْمُلْكِ فَإِذًۭا لَّا يُؤْتُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ نَقِيرًا
Or have they a share of dominion? Then [if that were so], they would not give the people [even as much as] the speck on a date seed.
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(Or have they even a share) if the Jews had a share (in the Sovereignty? Then in that case, they would not give mankind) they would not give Muhammad and his Companions (even the speck on a date stone).
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#3753Sahih
'Ariyya implies that date-palm trees should be donated to the people and then they sell it with a measure of dry dates.
Narrated by Yahya b. Sa'id reported this hadith with the same chain of transmitters but with this change:
Sahih Muslim#2152Sahih
No Sadaqa is payable on less than five wasqs of dates or grains.
Narrated by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Sunan an-Nasa'i#3941
"Arable land used to be leased out at the time of the Messenger of Allah on condition that the owner of the land would have whatever grew on the banks of the streams and a share of straw, I do not kno...
Narrated by It was narrated from Nafi' that 'Abdullah bin 'Umar used to say:
Sahih Muslim#6338Sahih
If the din were at the Pleiades, even then a person from Persia would have taken hold of it, or one amongst the Persian descent would have surely found it.
Narrated by Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Or have they a share in the Kingdom? that is to say they have no share in it whatever and even if they did then they would not give the people a single date-spot that is not even something as worthless as the tiny spot on the back of a date-pit because of the extent of their niggardliness.