Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 166
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And when they disdained to desist from that which was prohibited to them We said to them ‘Be apes despised!’ abased and they became so this is an explication of what preceded with regard to the details of their ‘grievous chastisement’. Ibn ‘Abbās said ‘I do not know what befell the group that abstained’. ‘Ikrima said ‘That group was not destroyed because they had been averse to what the others did and had said ‘Why do you preach admonition …’ Al-Hākim reported in a hadīth that he ‘Ikrima referred this opinion to Ibn ‘Abbās who was delighted by it.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(So when they took pride in) when they refused to refrain from (that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed!) humiliated and abominated!