[The second interpretation]

10485 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah told us, Shababah told us, Warqa' from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid, regarding His saying: "Then resolve to me and do not give me respite," meaning: "Resolve for me what is in your souls."

[The third interpretation]

10486 - My father, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-A'la told us, Muhammad ibn Thawr told us, from Ma'mar, from Qatadah regarding: "Then resolve to me and do not give me respite," meaning: "To what you have decided."

His saying, the Almighty: "And do not give me respite"

10487 - Abu Zur'ah told us, Minjab told us, from Bishr ibn 'Umarah, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn 'Abbas regarding His saying: "And do not give me respite [wa-la tunziruni]," he says: "And do not delay me."

His saying, the Almighty: "But if you turn away, then no wage have I asked of you"

10488 - And by the same chain from Ibn 'Abbas, he said: "Say to them, I do not ask of you any reward for what I call you to," he says: "Any worldly benefit."

His saying, the Almighty: "My reward is only with Allah"

10489 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah told us, Shababah, from Warqa', from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid regarding "My reward [ajri]," he says: "My recompense."

His saying, the Almighty: "And I have been commanded to be of the Muslims"

10490 - My father told us, Abu Salih the scribe of al-Layth told us, Mu'awiyah ibn Salih told us, from 'Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn 'Abbas regarding His saying: "The Muslims," he says: "The monotheists (muwahhidin)."

His saying, the Almighty: "And they denied him, so We saved him"

10491 - Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la informed us by way of reading, Ibn Wahb informed me, he said: It reached me from Ibn 'Abbas that he said: "There were eighty men on Noah's ark, and one of them had an Arabic tongue."

10492 - 'Umar ibn al-'Abbas, the freed slave of the Banu Hashim, told me, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Salamah told us, Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq told us, from al-Hasan ibn Dinar, from 'Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jud'an, from Yusuf ibn Mihran, from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abbas, he said: I heard him saying: "The first of the animals Noah carried in..."