16449 - Hammad ibn al-Hasan ibn 'Anbasah narrated to us, Abu Dawud narrated to us, al-Mas'udi narrated to us, from 'Awn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utbah, that his father was asked: "Did Solomon marry the woman, the owner of Sheba?" He said: "My latest knowledge of her was when she said: 'I have submitted along with Solomon to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.'"

His saying, the Exalted: "And We have surely sent."

16450 - Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj narrated to us, 'Ubayd Allah ibn Musa narrated to us, from Isra'il, from al-Suddi, from Abu Salih, [regarding] "We have sent": [meaning] We have dispatched.

His saying: "To Thamud their brother Salih."

Its interpretation has already preceded.

His saying, the Exalted: "That you worship Allah."

16451 - Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us, Abu Ghassan informed us, Salama ibn al-Fadl narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, who said: Regarding what Muhammad ibn Abi Muhammad narrated to me, from 'Ikrimah or Sa'id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn 'Abbas: His saying "Worship Allah," meaning: Declare the oneness of your Lord.

His saying, the Exalted: "Then behold, they are two parties contending."

16452 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah narrated to us, Shababah narrated to us, Warqa' narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid, regarding his saying: "Two parties contending": [meaning] a believer and a disbeliever. His saying: "Salih is sent by his Lord" and his saying: "He is not sent."

16453 - Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us, al-'Abbas ibn al-Walid al-Narsi informed us, Yazid ibn Zuray', narrated to us, from Sa'id, from Qatadah, regarding his saying: "Then behold, they are two parties contending," [meaning] behold, the people were between a believer and a denier: one believing in the truth and holding fast to it, and one denying the truth and abandoning it. In this was the contention of the people.

16454 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah narrated to us, Shababah narrated to us, Warqa' narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid. His saying: "You seek to hasten the evil," [meaning] the evil: the punishment. And his saying: "Before the good," [meaning] before the mercy.

16455 - Al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan narrated to us, Ibrahim ibn 'Abd Allah al-Harawi narrated to us, Hajjaj informed us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mujahid, [regarding] "the good," he said: Well-being (al-'afiyah).