that ẓann comes in the meaning of certainty are more than can be counted, and in what we have mentioned there is sufficiency for whoever is granted success in understanding it.

And of that is the statement of Allāh, glorious be His praise: {And the criminals shall see the Hellfire and think that they are going to fall therein} [al-Kahf: 53]. And with the likes of what we have said regarding that came the explanation of the exegetes.

861- Al-Muthannā ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Ādam narrated to us, he said: Abū Jaʿfar narrated to us, from al-Rabīʿ, from Abū al-ʿĀliya, regarding His statement: {Who think that they are going to meet their Lord}, he said: Indeed, ẓann here is certainty.

862- And Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, he said: Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, he said: Sufyān narrated to us, from Jābir, from Mujāhid, he said: Every ẓann in the Qurʾān is certainty: {Indeed, I thought}, and {And they thought}.

863- Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Isḥāq narrated to us, he said: Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafrī narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, he said: Every ẓann in the Qurʾān is knowledge. (1)

864- And Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr ibn Ḥammād narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī: {Who think that they are going to meet their Lord}, as for {they think}, they are certain.

865- And al-Qāsim narrated to me, he said: Al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, he said: Ibn Jurayj said: {Who think that they are going to meet their Lord}, they knew that they are going to meet their Lord; it is like His statement: {Indeed, I thought that I would meet my account} [al-Ḥāqqa: 20], he says: I knew.

866- And Yūnus narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said regarding His statement: {Who think that they are going to meet their Lord}: Because they did not see with their own eyes, so their thinking was certainty,