Tafsir Ibn Abbas: At-Takwir, Ayah 24

At-Takwir · Ayah 24 · View Ayah
وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى ٱلْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍۢ
And Muhammad is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And he is not) i.e. Muhammad (pbuh) (avid of the Unseen) he is accused with regard to the revelation; and it is also said this means: he is not avaricious.

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and he Muhammad (s) is not to be accused of knowing the Unseen what is hidden of the revelation and the tidings of the heaven a variant reading for bi-zanīnin has bi-danīnin meaning that he is not ‘niggardly’ with the Unseen so as to reduce something of it and not disclose it.

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