Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Qalam, Ayah 15
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Tafsir
When Our signs — the Qur’ān — are recited to him he says that they are merely ‘Fables of the ancients!’ in other words he denies them in arrogance on account of the mentioned things which We have bestowed on him out of Our grace a variant reading for an of the previous verse has the interrogative a-an.
Related Hadiths
“I heard him reciting ‘By the fig, and the olive’.”
(Another chain) except that he said: "About the length for reciting fifty Ayahs."
"How long was there between them?" He said: "As long as it takes a man to recite fifty verses."
Umar passed by Hassan when he was reciting verses in the mosque. He looked at him. Thereupon he said: I used to recite verses when there was present in it the one who was better than you (i.e. the Pro...
"Whenever Anas bin Malik finished narrating a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), he would say, 'Or as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said.'"
When we were with Ibn ‘Umar, he heard the sound of a man who was blowing a pipe. He then mentioned a similar tradition. Abu Dawud said : This is more rejected.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(That, when Our revelations) the Qur'an, detailing the commands and prohibitions (are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old) this is just the talk and lies of the men of old.