Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 153
أَصْطَفَى ٱلْبَنَاتِ عَلَى ٱلْبَنِينَ
Has He chosen daughters over sons?
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Has He preferred daughters to sons? read a’stafā ‘has He preferred’ indicating an interrogative hamza which stands in place of the omitted conjunctive hamza.
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#4054Sahih
Have you, besides him, other sons? He said: Yes. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Have you given gifts to all of them like this (as you have given to Nu'man)? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Holy ...
Narrated by Nu'man b. Bashir, reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said:
Jami` at-Tirmidhi#1370Sahih
"The Prophet (ﷺ) gave a boy the choice between his father and his mother."
Narrated by Abu Maimunah narrated from Abu Hurairah who said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#5150
“three sisters, or three daughter, or two daughter, or two sisters”.
Narrated by The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Suhail through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version has :
Sahih Muslim#663Sahih
I The daughter of jahsh had been mustabida for seven years," and the rest of the hadith is the same (as mentioned above).
Narrated by The hadith has been narrated by 'A'isha through another chain of transmitters (in these words):
Ibn Abbas Commentary
((And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sons