His saying: "And in their ears is deafness."

7192 - al-Hasan ibn Abi al-Rabi‘ narrated to us, ‘Abd al-Razzaq informed us, Ma‘mar informed us, from Qatadah, regarding His saying: "Lest they understand it. And in their ears is deafness," he said: They hear it with their ears, but they do not retain anything of it, like the beast that hears the call but does not know what is being said to it.

7193 - Ahmad ibn ‘Uthman ibn Hakim informed us in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal narrated to us, Asbat narrated to us, from al-Suddi, regarding His saying: "And in their ears is deafness," he said: Deafness.

His saying: "And if they see every sign, they do not believe in it, until when they come to you."

7194 - Muhammad ibn Sa‘d al-‘Awfi informed us in what he wrote to me, my father narrated to me, my uncle narrated to me, my father narrated to me, from ‘Atiyyah, from Ibn ‘Abbas, regarding His saying: "Until when they come to you, they argue with you," he said: They are the polytheists.

His saying: "They argue with you."

7195 - And by the same chain, from Ibn ‘Abbas, regarding His saying: "They argue with you," he said: They are the polytheists; they argue with the Muslims regarding the slaughtered animal.

His saying: "Those who disbelieve say."

7196 - And by the same chain, from Ibn ‘Abbas, regarding His saying: "Those who disbelieve say: 'This is not but legends of the former people,'" he said: They are the polytheists; they say: "As for what you have slaughtered and killed, you eat, but as for what Allah has killed, you do not eat, and you are following the command of Allah."

His saying: "This is not but legends of the former people."

7197 - Ahmad ibn ‘Uthman ibn Hakim informed us in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal narrated to us, Asbat narrated to us, from al-Suddi, regarding His saying: "This is not but legends of the former people," meaning: The rhymed prose of the former people.

7198 - Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us, al-‘Abbas informed us, Yazid narrated to us, from Sa‘id, from Qatadah: "Legends of the former people," meaning: The narratives of the former people and their falsehood.

His saying, the Almighty and Exalted: "And they forbid it and keep away from it."

[The First Aspect]

7199 - Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Waki‘ narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Habib ibn Abi