Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Burooj, Ayah 7
وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌۭ
And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses.
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and they themselves to what they did to those who believed in God in the way of torturing them by hurling them into the fire when they did not recant their faith were witnesses they were themselves present thereat. It is reported in a hadīth that God saved the believers who had been thrown into the fire by taking their souls before they fell into it and that the fire then rose up and burnt all those sitting around it.
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#6899Sahih
Bear witness to this.
Narrated by 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported that the moon was split up in two parts during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). The mountain covered one of its parts and one part of it was above the mountain and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:
Sahih Muslim#6897Sahih
Bear testimony to this.
Narrated by Abu Ma'mar reported on the authority of Abdullah that the moon was split up during lifetime by Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in two parts and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#4622Da'if
Between them and their faith.
Narrated by Explaining the Quranic verse; “And between them and their desire is placed a barrier.” Al-Hasan said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#4455Hasan
He called the witnesses who testified.
Narrated by A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Ibrahim and al-Sha’bi from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators. But this version does not mention the words:
Sahih al-Bukhari#4032Sahih
Anas looked at the people wearing Tailsans (i.e. a special kind of head covering worn by Jews in old days). On that Anas said, "At this moment they (i.e. those people) look like the Jews of Khaibar."
Narrated by Narrated Abu `Imran:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And were themselves the witnesses) they used to testify that the believers were folk of error (of what they did to the believers) and it is said this means: they were present when they did this to the believers.