Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Naba, Ayah 38
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on the day yawma is the adverbial qualifier for lā yamlikūna ‘they will not be able to’ when the Spirit Gabriel or God’s hosts and the angels stand arrayed saffan is a circumstantial qualifier in other words mustaffīna. They creatures will not speak except him whom the Compassionate One permits to speak and who says what is right from among the believers and the angels as if meaning that they will intercede for he whom He approves of.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(On the day when the angels and the Spirit) Gabriel; and it is also said: this is a created being whose tremendousness only Allah knows; Ibn Mas'ud also said: the Spirit is an angel greater than every thing save the Throne, and this angel glorifies Allah each day 12,000 formulas of glorification, and which each glorification he utters Allah creates an angel who seeks forgiveness for the believers until the Day of Judgement; it is also said this refers to a group of angels who have feet and hands like those of humans (stand arrayed, they speak not) to intercede, (saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth) to intercede (and who speaketh right) truly �there is no deity save Allah�.