Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Maaida, Ayah 113
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They said ‘We desire to request this in order to eat of it and that our hearts be reassured through increased certainty and that we may know that we may acquire more awareness of the fact that you annaka is softened to an have spoken truthfully to us in your claim to prophethood and that we may be among the witnesses thereof’.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(They said: We wish to eat thereof, that we may satisfy our hearts) regarding the marvels that you show us (and know) and have certainty (that thou hast spoken truth to us) regarding all what you said, (and that thereof we may be witnesses) when we go back to our people.