Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 63
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Tafsir
He said concealing his deed ‘Rather it was this principal one among them did it. So question them about the perpetrator of this if they can speak!’ here the response to the conditional statement precedes the conditional clause; in the preceding clause there is an intimation for them that an idol acknowledged as being incapable of action cannot be a god.
Related Hadiths
" So that they should ask him."
the Prophet said: 'Is it other than a piece of his flesh?" Or: "part of him?"
What did you ask? Mughira replied: I said that the people alleged that he would have a mountain load of bread and mutton and rivers of water. Thereupon he said: He would be more insignificant in the e...
The one who asked (the Prophet) was Gabriel (refer to Hadith 5.327).
"I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the day of Al-Hajj Al-Akbar, and he said: "The day of An-Nahr."
"And he was asked about the Mir'ad."
And as for him among them who had the greater share..' (24.11) was `Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul.
"Respond to the one who asks even with a sheep's foot." According to the narration of Harun: "With a sheep's burned foot."
I said to Simak: What does this dali-ul-fam mean? And he said: This means broad face. I said: What does this ashkal mean? He said: Long in the slit of the eye. I said: What is this manhus-ul-aqibain? ...
The only reason why he asked whether the whole of him should come in was because of the smallness of the tent
Ibn Abbas Commentary
He said) Abraham said: (But this, their chief) who has the axe on its shoulder (hath done it. So question them, if they can speak) so that they can inform you who broke them.