Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Nisaa, Ayah 98
إِلَّا ٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ ٱلرِّجَالِ وَٱلنِّسَآءِ وَٱلْوِلْدَٰنِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةًۭ وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًۭا
Except for the oppressed among men, women and children who cannot devise a plan nor are they directed to a way -
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Except the oppressed among the men women and children who are unable to devise a plan having no strength to emigrate and no substance and are not guided to a way a means of going to the land of emigration.
Related Hadiths
Sahih al-Bukhari#1310Sahih
My mother and I were among the weak and oppressed. I from among the children, and my mother from among the women.
Narrated by Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
Sahih Muslim#6776Sahih
I have not left after me turmoil for the people but the harm done to men by women.
Narrated by Usama b. Zaid b. Harith and Sa'id b. Zaid b. 'Amr b. Naufal both reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
Allah then showed who had an excuse, saying: (Except the feeble among men) the elderly and the weak, (and the women, and the children, who are unable to devise a plan) for leaving Mecca (and are not shown a way) they do not know how to leave.