Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Noor, Ayah 49
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Tafsir
But if right be on their side they would come to him willingly hastening compliantly.
Related Hadiths
"Or one of them tells the other: "Exercise the right."
“The partner has more right to what is near him, so long as he is still a partner.”
"When one of you gets up from his spot, then comes back, he has more right to it."
“The neighbor has more right to preemption of his neighbor, so let him wait for him even if he is absent, if they share a path.”
“A man has more right to his gift so long as he has not gotten something in return for it.”
"A man has more right to his own wealth when he finds it, and the buyer should pursue the one who sold it to him."
“When anyone of you puts on his sandals, let him start with the right, and when he takes them off, let him start with the left.”
"If a person becomes bankrupt, then a man finds the goods that he sold to him with him, he has more right to them than anyone else."
“Pass it around to the right.”
“The neighbor has more right to property that is near.”
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(But if right had been with them) with the people of 'Uthman (they would have come unto him) to the Prophet (pbuh) (willingly) in haste and obediently.