And others said: The meaning of that is: And for you on the earth is a settling place in the graves.
767 - Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr ibn Ḥammād narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī: "And for you on the earth is a dwelling place," meaning the graves (1).
768 - And Yūnus narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to me, from Isrāʾīl, from Ismāʿīl al-Suddī, he said: The one who heard Ibn ʿAbbās narrated to me that he said: "And for you on the earth is a dwelling place," he said: The graves (2).
769 - And Yūnus narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said: "And for you on the earth is a dwelling place," he said: Their staying in it (3).
Abū Jaʿfar said: The "dwelling place" (mustaqarr) in the speech of the Arabs is the place of settling. Since that is the case, wherever anyone on earth is existing and alighting, that place of the earth is his dwelling place.
Allah, majestic is His praise, only meant by that: that they have on earth a dwelling place and an abode instead of their places and dwelling place in Paradise and heaven. Likewise, His statement: "and an enjoyment," He means by it: that they have in it an enjoyment instead of their enjoyment in Paradise.
The discourse on the interpretation of the statement of Him whose mention is exalted: ﴿and an enjoyment for a time (36) ﴾
Abū Jaʿfar said: The scholars of interpretation differed regarding the interpretation of that. Some of them said: And for you in it is a sustenance until death.
770 - Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr ibn Ḥammād narrated to us, he said:
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