His saying, the Almighty: "He said, 'For each is double.'"

8454 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah told us, Shababah told us, Warqa' told us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid: His saying: "For each is double"—doubled.

8455 - Ahmad ibn 'Uthman informed us in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal told us, Asbat told us, from al-Suddi: regarding His saying: "Our Lord, these have misled us, so give them a double punishment from the Fire," God the Almighty said: "For each is double; for the former and the latter is a double."

His saying, the Almighty: "And their former ones will say to their latter ones, 'Then you have no superiority over us.'"

8456 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah told us, Shababah told us, Warqa' told us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid: His saying: "Then you have no superiority over us"—a mitigation of the punishment.

8457 - Ahmad ibn 'Uthman ibn Hakim informed us in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal told us, Asbat told us, from al-Suddi: regarding His saying: "And their former ones will say to their latter ones, 'Then you have no superiority over us,' and you have strayed just as we have strayed."

His saying, the Almighty: "So taste the punishment for what you used to earn."

8458 - My father mentioned it, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-A'la al-San'ani told us, al-Mu'tamir ibn Sulayman told us, he said: I heard 'Imran ibn Hudayr from Abu Mijlaz regarding this verse: "Then you have no superiority over us, so taste the punishment," he says: He means, you have no superiority over us, when it has been made clear to you what happened to us, and you were warned.

His saying, the Almighty: "Indeed, those who deny Our verses and are arrogant toward them - the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them."

[The First Aspect]

8459 - al-Mundhir ibn Shadhan told us, Ya'la told us, Abu Sinan told us, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn 'Abbas: regarding His saying: "the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," he said: He intends by it the disbelievers, in that Heaven will not be opened for their souls, while it is opened for the souls of the believers. It is narrated from al-Dahhak something similar.