by His hand, and He made His angels prostrate to him, and He taught him the names of everything, and He caused him to dwell in Paradise, eating therein abundantly wherever he wished, and he was forbidden from a single tree; yet the trial did not cease to affect him until he fell into what he was forbidden from. And if the unseen were known, the Jinn would have known it when the Prophet of Allah, Sulayman (Solomon), may Allah bless him and grant him peace, died; they remained working for him for a year in the most extreme humiliation, not perceiving his death, and nothing pointed them to his death except the creature of the earth eating his staff—meaning it ate his walking stick. So when he collapsed, the Jinn realized—and it is in the codex of Ibn Mas'ud: "The humans realized"—that if the Jinn had known the unseen, they would not have remained in the humiliating punishment. And the Jinn used to claim before that, that they knew the unseen and knew what would happen tomorrow, so Allah tested them with that, and made the death of Sulayman a lesson for the Jinn.

His saying, the Exalted: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed regarding the Hereafter."

16537 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah narrated to us, Shababah narrated to us, Warqa' narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid, regarding his saying: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed," meaning: their knowledge is encompassed.

16538 - Abu Zur'ah narrated to us, Safwan narrated to us, al-Walid narrated to us, 'Uthman ibn al-Aswad narrated, he said: I heard Mujahid saying regarding the saying of Allah: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed," he says: i.e., their knowledge is encompassed, their knowledge did not reach the Hereafter.

16539 - My father narrated to us, Abu Salih narrated to us, Mu'awiyah ibn Salih narrated to me, from 'Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn 'Abbas: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed regarding the Hereafter," he says: Their knowledge has vanished.

16540 - My father narrated to us, Ibn Abi 'Umar narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn 'Ubayd, from al-Hasan that he used to recite: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed," he said: Their knowledge in the world withered away when they witnessed the Hereafter.

16541 - 'Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, Sa'id ibn Yahya al-Umawi narrated to us, my father narrated to me, Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from 'Ata' al-Khurasani, from Ibn 'Abbas: "Rather, their knowledge is encompassed regarding the Hereafter," when knowledge is of no benefit.

16542 - al-'Abbas ibn al-Walid ibn Mazyad informed us by way of reading, Muhammad ibn Shu'ayb ibn