Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Mursalaat, Ayah 48
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For when it is said to them ‘Bow down!’ perform prayer they do not bow down they do not perform prayer.
Related Hadiths
“The Prophet (ﷺ) used to teach us not to bow or prostrate before the Imam; when he says the Takbir then say the Takbir, and when he prostrates, you should prostrate.”
"When the Prophet (ﷺ) started to pray he said the takbir and raised his hands, and when he bowed, and after bowing, but he did not raise them between the two prostrations."
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Do not bow or prostrate before me. No matter how far ahead of you I bow, you will catch up with me when I stand up, and no matter how far ahead of you I prostrate, y...
"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to raise his hands when he started to pray, and when he bowed, and when he stood up, but he did not do that when he prostrated."
" about the hardship of the prostration on them, when they were so spread out, so he said: 'Use your knees.'"
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘No prayer is acceptable in which a man does not settle his spine when bowing and when prostrating.’”
Al-Bara who is not a liar said; when they (the companions) raised their heads from bowing along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), they would stand up, and when they saw him that he went down in prostra...
Al-Bara b.‘Azib said ; we used to pray along with the prophet (ﷺ); none of us bowed his back until he saw that the prophet (ﷺ) bowed (his back).
Zaid was imam (in a prayer) and he did not make prostration.
“When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) bowed, he neither raised his head nor lowered it, rather (he did something) between that.”
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(When it is said unto them) to the disbelievers when they were in the life of the world: (Bow down) submit to Allah by believing in His divine Oneness, (they bow not down!) they did not submit to Allah by accepting His divine Oneness; it is also said that they will be asked to do so in the Hereafter, when Allah will say to them: " bow down, if you are truthful that you believed in that which you now claim " , this is because they said: " By Allah, our Lord, we were not idolaters ". But they will not be able to bow down and their bodies will remain erect and stiff. It is also said that this verse was revealed about Thaqif who said: " we will not bend down to bow or prostrate ".