12253 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) regarding His saying: 'Like a good tree,' he said: It is the date palm tree that 'gives its fruit all the time.' He said: In the morning and the evening (1).

From 'Ikrimah (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding His saying: 'Like a good tree,' he said: It is the date palm tree; there is always something in it from which one benefits, either fruit or firewood. He said: And likewise is the good word; it benefits its possessor in the world and the Hereafter (2).

His saying, the Exalted: 'It gives its fruit all the time.'

12254 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) regarding His saying: 'It gives its fruit all the time,' he said: Every hour, by night and by day, and in winter and summer. And that is the likeness of the believer; he obeys his Lord by night and by day, and in winter and summer (3).

12255 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), regarding 'it gives its fruit,' he said: It is green, then it becomes yellow (4).

12256 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) regarding His saying: 'It gives its fruit all the time,' he said: It is the harvesting of the date palm (5).

12257 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) regarding 'it gives its fruit all the time,' he said: It bears fruit every six months (6).

12258 - From 'Ikrimah (may Allah be pleased with him), that he was asked about a man who swore that he would not do such and such for a 'while' (hin), so he said: Verily, of the 'while' (hin) there is a 'while' that is measurable, and of the 'while' there is a 'while' that is not measurable. The 'while' that is not measurable is His saying: 'And you will surely know its information after a while' (38:88). And the 'while' that is measurable is 'it gives its fruit all the time (hin) by permission of its Lord,' and that is from the time the date palm is harvested until the time it blooms, and that is six months (7).

12259 - From Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, he said: A 'while' (hin) can be two months, and the date palm only carries its fruit for two months.

From Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding 'it gives its fruit all the time,' he said: Its fruit is eaten in winter and summer (8).