Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Waaqia, Ayah 16
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Tafsir
(Reclining) in comfort (therein) on couches (face to face) upon visitation.
Related Hadiths
"I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reclining upon as pillow, on his left side."
I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) lying on his back in the mosque and putting one of his legs over the other.
When I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) in his house, I saw him sitting reclining on a pillow. The narrator Ibn al-Jarrah added: "on his left side". Abu Dawud said: Ishaq b. Mansur transmitted it from Isra'i...
‘Abbad b. Tamim quoted his paternal uncle as saying that he had seen the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) lying on his back in the mosque according to Qa’nabi’s version) placing one foot over the other.
I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) lying-down in the mosque and placing one leg on the other.
None of you should lie on his back and place one of his feet upon the other.
"He would sleep like that while he was sitting up."
that his uncle said, "I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) lying flat (on his back) in the mosque with one leg on the other." Narrated Sa`id bin Al-Musaiyab that `Umar and `Uthman used to do the same.
It was narrated from 'Abbad bin Tamim, from his paternal uncle, that he saw the messenger of Allah (ﷺ) lying on his back in the Masjid, placing one leg on top of the other.
“I do not eat while reclining.”
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
reclining on them face to face muttaki’īna ‘alayhā mutaqābilīna constitute two circumstantial qualifiers referring to the subject person of the predicate ‘they’.