Talhah, regarding His saying: "They have not entered it, yet they hope." Ibn 'Abbas said: When they look at the people of Paradise, they hope to enter it.

8516 - Muhammad ibn al-Munadi told us, Yunus ibn Muhammad told us, al-Hakam ibn al-Salt told us, he said: I heard Abu 'Ubayd ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ammar ibn Yasir—and Ibn Abi Labid asked him—about His saying: "They have not entered it, yet they hope," he said: The angels greeted them, and they had not yet entered it, hoping to enter it when they greeted them.

8517 - Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Hammad al-Tahrani informed me in what he wrote to me, 'Abd al-Razzaq told us, Ma'mar informed us, from al-Hasan, regarding His saying: "They have not entered it, yet they hope," he said: By Allah, Allah did not place that hope in their hearts except for the honor He intends for them.

His saying, the Almighty: "And when their eyes are turned towards the companions of the Fire."

8518 - 'Ali ibn al-Husayn told us, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah told us, Waki' told us, from Abi Makin, from his brother, from 'Ikrimah, "And when their eyes are turned towards the companions of the Fire," he said: Their faces are exposed to the Fire; then when they see the people of Paradise, that [fear] departs from them.

8519 - Abu Yazid al-Qaratisi informed me in what my father wrote, Asbagh ibn al-Faraj told us, he said: I heard 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn Aslam saying, regarding His saying: "And when their eyes are turned towards the companions of the Fire," and they saw their faces blackened and their eyes blue: They said, "Our Lord, do not place us with the wrongdoing people."

His saying, the Almighty: "Our Lord, do not place us with the wrongdoing people."

8520 - My father told us, 'Abdah ibn Sulayman told us, al-Mubarak informed us, Juwaybir informed us, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn 'Abbas: He said: When they look at the people of the Fire, they recognize them by the blackness of their faces, [and] they say: "Our Lord, do not place us with the wrongdoing people."

8521 - Muhammad ibn Sa'd al-'Awfi informed me in what he wrote to me, my father told me, my uncle told me, from his father, from his father, from Ibn 'Abbas: He said: So Allah placed them in that position so that they might recognize who is in Paradise and who is in the Fire, so that they may recognize the people of the Fire by the blackness of their faces and seek refuge with Allah that He might place them with the wrongdoing people.