37:147

As-Saaffaat

37:148

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Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 147

As-Saaffaat · Ayah 147 · View Ayah

وَأَرْسَلْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰ مِا۟ئَةِ أَلْفٍ أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ

And We sent him to [his people of] a hundred thousand or more.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (folk) or more) 20,000 more,

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And We sent him afterwards — as We had done before to a people in Nineveh in the region of Mosul — to a community of a hundred thousand or in fact more — a community of twenty thirty or seventy thousand.

Related Hadiths

Jami` at-Tirmidhi#3313Sahih

"I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the saying of Allah, Most High: 'And We sent him to a hundred thousand, or even more (37:147). He said: 'Twenty thousand (more).'"

Narrated by Narrated Ubayy bin Ka'b:

Sunan Abu Dawud#4748Sahih

We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He said when we arrived at a halting place: You are not a hundred thousandth part of those who will come down to me at the pond. I (the narrator AbuHamzah) ask...

Narrated by Narrated Zayd ibn Arqam:

Sahih Muslim#4865Sahih

Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sent us (on an expedition), and we were three hundred in number, and we were carrying our bags of provisions around our necks.

Narrated by Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported:

Sahih Muslim#4679Sahih

If we had been a hundred thousand in number, it (the water) would have sufficed us, but actually we were fifteen hundred.

Narrated by It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir who said:

Sunan Abu Dawud#2675Sahih

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us along with a contingent, and said: If you find so-and-so. He then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect.

Narrated by Abu Hurairah said:

Sunan Abu Dawud#2742Sahih

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us along with an army towards Najd, and he sent a detachment of that army (to face the enemy). The whole army got twelve camels per head as their portion, but he gave t...

Narrated by Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

Sahih Muslim#6669Sahih

There is for him ten like that (the good he performed) or more than that.

Narrated by A hadith like this has been transmitted on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and he (further) said:

Sahih al-Bukhari#4633Sahih

We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Al-Hudaibiya.

Narrated by Narrated Jabir:

Sunan an-Nasa'i#2776

"The Messenger of Allah went out during the time of Al-Hudabiyah with between one-thousand and three-hundred, and one-thousand and five-hundred of his Companions. Then, when they were in Dhul-Hulaifah...

Narrated by It was narrated that Al-Miswar bin Makhramah and Marwan bin Al-Hakam said:

Sahih al-Bukhari#2956Sahih

I along with some boys went out to receive Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) at Thaniyatal-Wada`.

Narrated by Narrated As-Sa'ib bin Yazid: