Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 199
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and had he recited it to them that is to the disbelievers of Mecca they would not have believed in it disdaining to follow it.
Related Hadiths
"I recited to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (Surat) An-Najm and he did not prostrate in it."
I recited An-Najm before the Prophet, yet he did not perform a prostration.
He asked Zaid bin Thabit about reciting with the Imam. He said: "There is no recitation with the Imam in anything." And he claimed that he had recited: "By the star when it goes down (or vanishes)" to...
" They both were equal in recitation."
And he did not narrate it in Marfu form, and this is more correct.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jarir with the same chain of transmitters and he also recited this (above-mentioned verse) to us, but he did not say that 'Abdullah recited it.
Anas reported this hadith through another chain of transmitters, but he made no mention of a camel-driver having a melodious voice.
Ibn 'Umar had narrated this hadith through another chain of transmitters.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And he had read it unto them) unto Quraysh, (they would not have believed in it) i.e. in the Qur'an, because they did not believe in what was in their own language, so how were they to believe in something which is in a different language?