Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 5
مَّا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍۢ وَلَا لِءَابَآئِهِمْ ۚ كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةًۭ تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ ۚ إِن يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِبًۭا
They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie.
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They do not have in this in this saying any knowledge nor did their fathers before them who also used to say this. Dreadful grave is the word that comes out of their mouths kalimatan ‘word’ is for specification and it explains the unidentified feminine person of the verb kaburat ‘dreadful’; and that which is the object of censure has been omitted and that is their above-mentioned saying that God has taken a son. They speak nothing thereby but an utterance of lies.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
((A thing) whereof they have no knowledge) they have no proof or argument for what they claim, (nor (had) their fathers) nor did their fathers have any knowledge. (Dreadful is the word) dreadful is the word of idolatry (that cometh out of their mouths) that is uttered by their mouth. (They speak naught but a lie) about Allah.