Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Text and translation
English translation
(10). 3024 'Alqamah said: "Abdullāh said: 'The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ commanded me to recite for him while he was on the Minbar. So I recited from Sūrat An-Nisā' for him, until I reached: How then (will it be) when We bring from each nation a witness, and We bring you (Muḥammad) as a witness against these people?[2] The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was beckoning me (to stop) with his hand, and I looked at him and his eyes were flowing with tears.'"(Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This is how Abū Al-Aḥwaṣ reported it, from Al-A'mash, from Ibrāhīm, from 'Alqamah from 'Abdullāh. It is
actually Ibrāhīm, from 'Abīdah,from 'Abdullāh.
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Footnotes
1
[1] Āl 'Imrān 3:195.
2
[2] An-Nisā 4:41.
Commentary
Allāh will gather all the nations and their Prophets on the Last Day, and the Prophets will be asked to bear witness that they conveyed the Message, likewise the Prophet ﷺ would stand to bear witness of having conveyed the Religion to the people of his nation. He ﷺ listened to this Ayah, he remembered the severity and horror of the Last Day and he began to cry; it guides us in that the aim of reading the Qur'an is also to learn lessons and contemplate on its message, and the reader gets impressed in order to bring about a constructive change in his lifestyle.
