Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Muddaththir, Ayah 24

فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ يُؤْثَرُ
And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

and said of what he the Prophet had brought ‘This is nothing but handed-down sorcery learnt from sorcerers;

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(And said: This) which Muhammad (pbuh) says (is naught else than magic from of old) magic which he took from Musaylimah the liar in al-Yamamah and he is now relating it to us; it is also said that this means: what he says is taken from Jabr and Yasar;

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I narrated this tradition to Ayyub who said: “Except IQAMAH”.

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"This Hadith was narrated from Yahya bin Sa'eed; I did not hear it from anyone but him."

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