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AI translationAnd His statement: ﴿And those who disbelieve and deny Our signs - those are the companions of the Hellfire; they will abide therein eternally (39) ﴾
Meaning: And those who rejected My signs and denied My messengers. And the signs of God are His proofs and evidences for His Oneness and His Lordship, and what the messengers brought of signs and testimonies to that effect, and to their truthfulness in what they reported from their Lord. And we have already explained that the meaning of disbelief (kufr) is covering over a thing. (1)
"Those are the companions of the Hellfire", meaning: its people who are its true inhabitants, to the exclusion of others, abiding therein forever, without term or end. As:-
797- ʿUqba ibn Sinān al-Baṣrī narrated to us, saying: Ghassān ibn Muḍar narrated to us, saying: Saʿīd ibn Yazīd narrated to us — and Sawwār ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us, saying: Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal narrated to us, saying: Abū Maslama Saʿīd ibn Yazīd narrated to us — and Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAwn narrated to me, saying: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayya narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Yazīd, from Abū Naḍra, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of God, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "As for the people of the Hellfire who are its true inhabitants, they neither die therein nor live. But there are people whom the Fire will strike because of their sins or their transgressions, so He will cause them to die a death, until when they become charcoal, permission will be granted for intercession." (2)
Notes
- (1) See what has preceded, p. 255.
- (2) Hadith: 797- Transmitted by al-Ṭabarī here through three chains of transmission, ending at Saʿīd ibn Yazīd. Ibn Kathīr mentioned it 1: 158, but he inadvertently made an error, mentioning that he transmitted it through two routes, whereas they are three as you see:
"ʿUqba ibn Sinān ibn ʿUqba ibn Sinān al-Baṣrī"—the shaykh of al-Ṭabarī in the first chain of transmission—is trustworthy; Abū Ḥātim heard from him and said: "Truthful." I found no biographical entry for him except in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl 3/1/311. "Ghassān ibn Muḍar al-Azdī al-Baṣrī" is trustworthy, among the old teachers of Aḥmad, and Aḥmad said: "A shaykh, trustworthy, trustworthy." Al-Bukhārī gave his biography in al-Kabīr 4/1/107, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in 3/2/51. "Abū Bakr ibn ʿAwn"—the shaykh of al-Ṭabarī in the third chain of transmission—I could not ascertain who he is; however, that has no detrimental effect on the chain of transmission, for al-Ṭabarī transmitted it from him and from Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, both from Ibn ʿUlayya. "Saʿīd ibn Yazīd ibn Maslama Abū Maslama al-Azdī al-Baṣrī" is a trustworthy Successor; the group [of hadith compilers] narrated from him. Al-Bukhārī gave his biography in 2/1/476, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in 2/1/73. His kunya is "Abū Maslama" with a mīm at the beginning. It occurred in Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr as "Abū Salama" without it, which is a typographical error.
This hadith was narrated by Muslim 1: 67–68, and Ibn Mājah: 4309—both through the route of Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, from Saʿīd ibn Yazīd Abū Maslama, with it. However, in their collections it is longer than it is here. None of the authors of the Six Books narrated it other than those two, as indicated by its citation in Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl by Ibn al-Athīr: 8085. Likewise, Imam Aḥmad narrated it in al-Musnad: 11093 (3: 11 Ḥalabī) from Ibn ʿUlayya. Aḥmad also narrated it: 11769 (3: 78–79), and Muslim 1: 68—both through the route of Shuʿba, from Saʿīd ibn Yazīd.
In reality, it is part of a long hadith, and Aḥmad narrated it in al-Musnad, both at length and abridged, through several routes from Abū Naḍra, including: 11029, 11168, 11218–11220 (3: 5, 20, 25–26 Ḥalabī).
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