Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Muminoon, Ayah 12
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍۢ مِّن طِينٍۢ
And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.
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And by God We certainly created man Adam from an extraction min sulālatin derives from the verbal expression salaltu’l-shay’a mina’l-shay’ ‘I drew one thing out of another’ meaning ‘I extracted it therefrom’ his Adam’s substance being of clay min tīnin is semantically connected to sulālatin ‘an extraction’.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Verily We created man) the son of Adam (from a product of wet earth);