Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Haaqqa, Ayah 42
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Nor is it the speech of a soothsayer. Little do you remember! read both verbs either in the second person plural or in the third person plural; the mā preceding both verbs is extra intended for emphasis. The meaning is they believed and remembered only very few things of what the Prophet s did things such as his good acts his kindness to kin and abstinence; yet this will be of no avail to them.
Related Hadiths
Do not take vows, for a vow has no effect against Fate; it is only from the miserly that something is extracted.
There is no transitive disease, no divination, but good omen pleases me. It was said: What is good omen? He said: Sacred words.
There is no transitive disease, no divination, but I like good words.
There is no transitive disease, no hama, no divination, but I like good omen.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Nor diviner's speech) which informs about the future (little is it that ye remember!) you do not take admonition in little or much.