Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Jinn, Ayah 25

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قُلْ إِنْ أَدْرِىٓ أَقَرِيبٌۭ مَّا تُوعَدُونَ أَمْ يَجْعَلُ لَهُۥ رَبِّىٓ أَمَدًا
Say, "I do not know if what you are promised is near or if my Lord will grant for it a [long] period."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Say) to them, O Muhammad: (I know not whether that which ye are promised) of chastisement (is nigh, or if my Lord hath set a distant term for it.

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Say ‘I do not know if what you are promised of chastisement is near or if my Lord has set a distant length for it an extent and a term which only He knows.

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That he (the Holy Prophet) said: I do not know whether he would be one who would fall into swoon and would recover before me or he would be compensated for his swooning at Tur (and thus he would not s...

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" I do not know whether the hadith is marfu'."

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I do not know whether he (the Holy Prophet) said (these words:" Then next" ) twice or thrice.

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"I do not know that the Messenger of Allah recited the whole Quran in one night, or prayed Qiyam until morning, or ever fasted an entire month, except Ramadan."

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He said : Make it known for a year. He said this three times. He said: I do not know whether he said “for a year” or “for three years”.

Narrated by The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Shu’bah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. The version goes :
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I do not know whether Tubba was accursed or not, and ‘Uzair (Azra was a prophet or not).

Narrated by Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying :
Sunan an-Nasa'i#3868

"No, not until he tells him (what his wages will be)."

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