Mujahid said regarding "And they will be gathered (in ranks)": "The first of them is detained for the last of them."

16194 - Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Malik al-Susi narrated to us, "Abd al-Wahhab ibn "Ata narrated to us, from Sa"id, from Qatadah regarding "And they will be gathered (in ranks)": He said, "For every group there are guards who return their first ones to their last ones."

16195 - Abu "Abd Allah al-Tehrani informed us in what he wrote to me, "Abd al-Razzaq informed us, Ma"mar informed us, he said: And al-Hasan said: "They will be gathered" means they are made to advance.

16196 - "Ubayd ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hamzah informed us in what he wrote to me, Abu al-Jumahir narrated to us, Sa"id ibn Bishr narrated to me, from Qatadah regarding "And they will be gathered (in ranks)": He said, "For every group of them there are guards and drivers who return their first ones to their last ones."

16197 - Abu Zur"ah narrated to us, Ibrahim ibn Musa narrated to us, Ibn Abi Za"idah informed us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mujahid regarding "And they will be gathered (in ranks)": He said, "A guard was appointed over every group to return the first of them to the last of them, so that they would not advance in the march, just as kings do today."

His saying (Exalted is He): "Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants"

16198 - Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us, al-"Abbas ibn al-Walid al-Narsi informed us, Yazid ibn Zuray", narrated to us, Sa"id narrated to us, from Qatadah regarding His saying: "Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants," he said: "It was mentioned to us that it is a valley in the land of the Levant."

His saying (Exalted is He): "An ant said..." to His saying: "...while they do not perceive."

16199 - Abu Sa"id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Ahmad ibn Bashir narrated to us, a sheikh from Thaqif informed us, from al-Sha"bi, he said: "The ant whose speech Solomon understood had two wings."

16200 - Abu Sa"id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Ahmad ibn Bashir narrated to us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Sha"bi, the like of it.

16201 - My father narrated to us, "Isa ibn Yunus narrated to us, Damrah narrated to us, from al-"Ala' ibn Harun, from al-Sha"bi, he said: "The ant was of the birds; were it not for that, Solomon would not have understood what it was saying."

16202 - My father narrated to us, "Amr ibn "Awn narrated to us, Abu Mu"awiyah narrated to us, from al-A"mash, from