His saying, the Almighty: "Like the charred remains of a garden."

18949 - From Ibn 'Abbas, regarding His saying: "Like the charred remains," he said: "Like the black night."(1)

18950 - From Ibn 'Abbas, regarding His saying: "They said, 'We are indeed lost,'" he said: "We have lost the location of our garden."(2)

His saying, the Almighty: "The most moderate of them."

18951 - From Ibn 'Abbas, regarding His saying: "The most moderate of them said," he said: "The most just among them."(3)

His saying, the Almighty: "Why do you not exalt [Allah]?"

18952 - From al-Suddi, regarding His saying: "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allah]?'" he said: "Their exception [to their oaths] in that time was the tasbih (exaltation of Allah)."(4)

His saying, the Almighty: "The Day when the shin will be laid bare."

18953 - By way of 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, that he was asked about His saying: "The Day when the shin will be laid bare," he said: "If something in the Qur'an is hidden from you, then seek it in poetry, for it is the register of the Arabs. Have you not heard the saying of the poet:

'Be patient, 'Anaq, for it is an enduring evil... Your people have set for me the striking of necks, And the war has risen for us upon a shin [i.e., a state of intensity].'(6)"

18954 - Ibn 'Abbas said: "This is a day of anguish and intensity."(7)

18956 - From Ibn 'Abbas, regarding "The Day when the shin will be laid bare," he said: "It is the severe, horrifying matter from the terror of the Day of Resurrection."(8)

18957 - From Ibn Mas'ud, that the Dajjal (Antichrist) was mentioned in his presence, and he said: "[People] will separate into three groups following him: a group that follows him, a group that catches up to the land of their fathers, the places of growth of the shaykh, and a group that takes the bank of the Euphrates,"