His saying: Moses said to them, "Throw what you are going to throw."

15624 - 'Ammar ibn Khalid narrated to us, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn and Yazid ibn Harun reported to us, from Asbagh ibn Zayd, from al-Qasim, Sa'id ibn Jubayr narrated to me, from Ibn 'Abbas who said: The day on which Allah gave Moses victory over Pharaoh and the sorcerers was the day of 'Ashura'. When they gathered on a plateau, some people said to others, "Come, let us attend this matter and follow the sorcerers if they are the victors," meaning by that Moses and Aaron, mocking them. They said, "O Moses," due to their reliance on their sorcery, "either you throw, or we will be the ones who throw." ... "So they threw their ropes and their sticks, and said, 'By the might of Pharaoh, indeed we are the winners.'" Moses saw of their sorcery what caused a fear within himself, so Allah inspired him, "Throw the staff."

His saying: "So they threw their ropes and their sticks."

15625 - Abu Zur'ah narrated to us, 'Amr ibn Hammad reported to us, Asbat reported to us, from al-Suddi: "So they threw their ropes and their sticks." They were more than thirty thousand men, and there was not a man among them except that he had a rope or a stick with him. So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck them with terror.

His saying: "And they said, 'By the might of Pharaoh, indeed we are the winners.'"

15626 - Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us, al-'Abbas ibn al-Walid informed us, Yazid ibn Zuray' reported to us, Sa'id reported to us, from Qatadah regarding His saying: "And they said, 'By the might of Pharaoh, indeed we are the winners.'" But they found Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, to be mightier than him.

15627 - 'Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, 'Abd al-A'la ibn Hammad reported to us, saying: Bishr ibn Mansur said: It reached me that when some of this was spoken, and they said, "By the might of Pharaoh," or words to that effect, the angels said, "Cut him off, by the Lord of the Ka'bah!" He said: So Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, said: "You are swearing on My behalf? I have given him respite for forty years."

His saying, the Exalted: "Then Moses threw his staff."

15628 - 'Ammar ibn Khalid al-Wasiti narrated to us, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn and Yazid ibn Harun reported to us, from Asbagh ibn Zayd, from al-Qasim, Sa'id ibn Jubayr narrated to me, from Ibn 'Abbas regarding His saying: "Then Moses threw his staff," he said: Allah inspired him to throw the staff, and when he threw it, it became a great serpent.