Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Muminoon, Ayah 83

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لَقَدْ وُعِدْنَا نَحْنُ وَءَابَآؤُنَا هَٰذَا مِن قَبْلُ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
We have been promised this, we and our forefathers, before; this is not but legends of the former peoples."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(We were already promised this) which you are promising us, O Muhammad, (we and our forefathers) before us, were also promised the same. (Lo! This) that which you are saying to us, O Muhammad, (is naught but fables) the mere talk and lies (of the men of old.

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Already We and our fathers have been promised this resurrection after death before these are nothing but the fables the lies of the ancients’ mere jokes and strange tales asātīr the plural of ustūra.

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