His saying: "We have not made for him before any namesake."

13043 - From Ibn Abbas regarding His saying: "We have not made for him before any namesake," he said: "No one was named Yahya (John) before him."

13044 - From Ibn Abbas regarding His saying: "We have not made for him before any namesake," he said: "The barren women have not given birth to a child like him."

13045 - From Mujahid regarding His saying: "We have not made for him before any namesake," he said: "A likeness."

13046 - From Sa'id ibn Jubayr regarding His saying: "We have not made for him before any namesake," he said: "An equal."

His saying: "And I have reached the extreme of old age."

13047 - From Mujahid regarding His saying: "And I have reached the extreme of old age," he said: "The wasting away of the bones."

13048 - From Ibn Zayd regarding "And I have reached the extreme of old age," he said: "The 'ity' (extreme of old age) is that which has become too old from the child-bearing age, as one perceives in himself that there is no fertility in it."

13049 - From Qatadah regarding His saying: "And I have reached the extreme of old age," he says: "Senility."

13050 - From al-Thawri, he said: "It has reached me that Zechariah was seventy years old."

13051 - From Ibn al-Mubarak regarding "And I have reached the extreme of old age," he said: "Sixty years."

13052 - From Abdullah ibn Aqil that he read: "wa qad balaghtu min al-kibri 'isiyan" with an 'sin' and the 'ayn' in the nominative case.

His saying: "Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights, [being] sound."

13053 - From Ibn Zayd regarding the verse, he said: "His tongue was restrained so that he could not speak to anyone, and while in that state, he would glorify [Allah] and recite the Torah, but if he wanted to speak to the people, he could not speak to them."