Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Hijr, Ayah 72
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By your life — this is an address to the Prophet s — in their drunkenness they were bewildered hesitant.
Related Hadiths
"The Prophet (ﷺ) recited: You shall see mankind as if in a drunken state, yet they will not be in a drunken state. (22:2)
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While I was waiting on my uncles and serving them with (wine prepared from) dates----and I was the youngest of them----it was said, "Alcoholic drinks have been prohibited." So they said (to me), "Th...
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I was standing amongst the members of my (tribe) and serving them liquor. The rest of the hadith is the same, but with this variation that Abu Bakr b. Anas said: It was their liquor in those days (pre...
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"Alcoholic drinks were prohibited (by Allah) when there was nothing of it (special kind of wine) in Medina.
"They used to think that whoever drank something and became intoxicated from it, it was not befitting for him to go back and drink more of the same."
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(By thy life (O Muhammad)) Allah swore by the life of Muhammad (pbuh) and it is also said that He swore by His religion (they) i.e. the people of Lot (moved blindly) they did not see (in the frenzy of approaching death) because of their ignorance that they were heading towards their death.