His saying: "And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion."

7231 - al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us, Shababah narrated to us, Warqa’ narrated to us, who said: ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Najih claimed, from Ibrahim ibn Abi Bakr, from Mujahid, who said: "Amusement" is: The drum.

His saying: "And the home of the Hereafter is better." The verse.

7232 - My father narrated to us, Abu Salih narrated to us, Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih narrated to me, from ‘Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding His saying: "And the home of the Hereafter is better," he says: Enduring.

7233 - My father narrated to us, al-Haytham ibn Yaman narrated to us, Isma‘il ibn Zakariyya narrated to us, Muhammad ibn ‘Awn al-Khurasani narrated to me, from ‘Ikrimah regarding His saying: "And the home of the Hereafter," he says: Paradise.

His saying: "We know indeed that it saddens you what they are saying."

[The First Aspect]

7234 - My father narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Fudayl al-Bazzaz, a resident of Mecca, narrated to us, Mu‘awiyah ibn Hisham narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Najiyah ibn Ka‘b, from ‘Ali: Abu Jahl said to the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): "We do not deny you; rather, we deny what you have brought." So Allah the Exalted revealed: "Indeed, they do not deny you, but the wrongdoers reject the signs of Allah."

7235 - Ahmad ibn Sinan narrated to us, Ibn Mahdi narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Najiyah ibn Ka‘b, who said: Abu Jahl said—then he mentioned something similar, and he did not mention ‘Ali in the chain of narration.

The Second Aspect:

7236 - Abu Zur‘ah narrated to us, Minjab ibn al-Harith narrated to us, Bishr ibn ‘Umarah informed us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding His saying: "They do not deny you"—with a lightened [pronunciation]. He said: And that is how he used to recite it. He said: They are not capable of saying that you are not a Messenger, nor that the Quran is not the Quran. As for their denying you with their tongues, they do indeed deny you, and that is the denial (kidhb) which is to declare something false (takdhib).

The Third Aspect:

7237 - Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Abu Yahya al-Razi narrated to us, I heard Abu Ma‘shar, from