Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 123
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Tafsir
And truly Elias read wa-inna Ilyās with the initial hamza or without wa-inna’l-yāsa was also one of the messengers. Some think that this Elias was the son of Aaron’s brother — Aaron the brother of Moses; but some say that this Elias was some other person who was sent to the people living in and around Baalbak.
Related Hadiths
That the Messenger of Allah , Abu Bakr and 'Umar were in Marr Az-Zahran. He narrated it in Mursal from. (Daif)
A part of tradition has also been transmitted by al-Lajlaj from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators.
A similar report was narrated from Ibn 'Amr, from a man, from Ya'la.
(A similar report) was narrated from Ayyub bin Musa, from 'Ata, in Mursal form.
Some of the children of al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami said: Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami was the governor of the Prophet (ﷺ) at al-Bahrayn, and when he wrote to him he began with his won name.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And lo! Elias was of those sent (to warn)) his folk.