of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him: "Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing," he says: so they do not comprehend nor do they hear. And He says: "and placed over their sight a veil," he says: over their eyes, so they do not see. (1)
As for others, they used to interpret that those disbelievers whom Allah informed that He did that to them were the leaders of the confederates who were killed on the day of Badr.
309- Al-Muthannā ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, he said: These two verses up to {And for them is a great punishment} refer to {those who exchanged the favor of Allah for disbelief and settled their people in the home of ruin} [Sūrat Ibrāhīm: 28], and they are those who were killed on the day of Badr; none of those leaders entered Islam except two men: Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb and al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ. (2)
310- And I was narrated from ʿAmmār ibn al-Ḥasan, he said: Ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, from al-Ḥasan, he said: As for the leaders, there was none among them who responded, was saved, or was guided.
And we have already demonstrated in what has passed which of these two interpretations is most deserving of being correct, so we disliked repeating it.
The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of Him Whose Praise is Majestic: {And for them is a great punishment (7)}
And the interpretation of that in my view is as Ibn ʿAbbās stated and interpreted it:
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