Chapter 10: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "Allah sends His Salāt (Graces, Honours, Blessings and Mercy) on the Prophet (Muḥammad pbuh) and also His angels (ask Allah to bless and forgive him)..." (V.33:56) - كتاب التفسير
We said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! (We know) this greeting (to you) but how shall we invoke Allah for
you?" He said, "Say! Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin `Abdika wa rasulika kama- sallaita 'ala all
Ibrahim wa barik ala Muhammadin wa'ala all Muhammadin kama barakta 'ala all Ibrahim.' Al-Laith
said: 'Ala Muhammadin wa 'ala all Muhammadin kama barakta ala all Ibrahim.
Narrated Ibn Abi Hazim and Ad-Darawardi:
Yazid said, "Kama sallaita ala Ibrahima wa barik 'ala Muhammad in wa all Muhammadin kama barakta 'ala Abrahima wa all Ibrahim."
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Chapter 11: "Be you not like those who annoyed Mūsa (Moses)." (V.33:69) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated Abu Huraira:
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، وَمُحَمَّدٍ، وَخِلاَسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِنَّ مُوسَى كَانَ رَجُلاً حَيِيًّا، وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ آذَوْا مُوسَى فَبَرَّأَهُ اللَّهُ مِمَّا قَالُوا وَكَانَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَجِيهًا}"
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Moses was a shy man, and that is what the Statement of Allah means:
'O you who believe Be not like those who annoyed Moses, but Allah proved his innocence of that
which they alleged and he was honorable in Allah's Sight.' (33.69)
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Hadith 4800
Chapter 1: "...So much so that when fear is banished from their (angels') hearts, they (angels) say: 'What is it that your Lord has said?' They say: 'The truth. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.'" (V.34:23). - كتاب التفسير
Allah's Prophet said, "When Allah decrees some order in the heaven, the angels flutter their wings
indicating complete surrender to His saying which sounds like chains being dragged on rock. And
when the state of fear disappears, they ask each other, "What has your Lord ordered? They say that He
has said that which is true and just, and He is the Most High, the Most Great." (34.23). Then the
stealthy listeners (devils) hear this order, and these stealthy listeners are like this, one over the other."
(Sufyan, a sub-narrator demonstrated that by holding his hand upright and separating the fingers.) A
stealthy listener hears a word which he will convey to that which is below him and the second will
convey it to that which is below him till the last of them will convey it to the wizard or foreteller.
Sometimes a flame (fire) may strike the devil before he can convey it, and sometimes he may convey
it before the flame (fire) strikes him, whereupon the wizard adds to that word a hundred lies. The
people will then say, 'Didn't he (i.e. magician) tell such-and-such a thing on such-and-such date?' So
that magician is said to have told the truth because of the Statement which has been heard from the
heavens."
One day the Prophet (ﷺ) ascended Safa mountain and said, "Oh Sabah! " All the Quraish gathered round
him and said, "What is the matter?" He said, Look, if I told you that an enemy is going to attack you
in the morning or in the evening, would you not believe me?" They said, "Yes, we will believe you."
He said, "I am a warner to you in face of a terrible punishment." On that Abu Lahab said, "May you
perish ! Is it for this thing that you have gathered us?" So Allah revealed:
'Perish the hands of Abu Lahab!...' (111.1)
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Chapter 1: Allah's Statement: "And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term (appointed). That is the Decree of the All Mighty, the All-Knowing." (V.36:38) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated Abu Dharr:
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي الْمَسْجِدِ عِنْدَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ فَقَالَ " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ أَتَدْرِي أَيْنَ تَغْرُبُ الشَّمْسُ ". قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ. قَالَ " فَإِنَّهَا تَذْهَبُ حَتَّى تَسْجُدَ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ، فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى {وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَهَا ذَلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ}"
Once I was with the Prophet (ﷺ) in the mosque at the time of sunset. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O Abu Dharr! Do
you know where the sun sets?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know best." He said, "It goes and
prostrates underneath (Allah's) Throne; and that is Allah's Statement:--
'And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term (decreed). And that is the decree of All-Mighty, the
All-Knowing....' (36.38)
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Chapter 1: Allah's Statement: "And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term (appointed). That is the Decree of the All Mighty, the All-Knowing." (V.36:38) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated Abu Dharr:
حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، قَالَ سَأَلْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى {وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَهَا} قَالَ " مُسْتَقَرُّهَا تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ ".
I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about the Statement of Allah:--
'And the sun runs on fixed course for a term (decreed), ' (36.38) He said, "Its course is underneath
"Allah's Throne." (Prostration of Sun trees, stars. mentioned in Qur'an and Hadith does not mean like
our prostration but it means that these objects are obedient to their Creator (Allah) and they obey for
what they have been created for).
I asked Muhajid regarding the prostration in Surat Sa`d. He said, "Ibn `Abbas was asked the same
question and he said, 'Those are they (the prophets) whom Allah had Guided. So follow their
guidance." (6.90) Ibn `Abbas used to perform a prostration (on reading this Sura).
I asked Mujahid regarding the prostration in Surat Sa`d. He said, "I asked Ibn `Abbas, 'What evidence
makes you prostrate?' He said, "Don't you recite:--'And among his progeny, David and
Solomon..(6.84). Those are they whom Allah had guided. So follow their guidance.' (6.90) So David
was the one of those prophets whom Prophet (Muhammad) was ordered to follow. David prostrated,
so Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (Muhammad) performed this prostration too.'
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Hadith 4808
Chapter 2: The Statement of Allah the Exalted: "He (Solomon peace be upon him) said: "My Lord! Forgive me. And bestow upon me a kingdom such as shall not belong to any other after me. Verily, You are the Bestower." (V.38:35) - كتاب التفسير
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Last night a demon from the Jinns came to me (or the Prophet (ﷺ) said, a similar sentence) to disturb my prayer, but Allah gave me the power to overcome him. I intended to tie him to one of the pillars of the mosque till the morning so that all of you could see him, but then I remembered the Statement of my brother Solomon:--'My Lord! Forgive me and bestow on me a kingdom such as shall not belong to any other after me.' (38.35) The narrator added: Then he (the Prophet) dismissed him, rejected.
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Chapter 3: The Statement of Allah the Exalted: "...Nor am I one of the Mutakallifūn (those who pretend and fabricate things which do not exist) ." (V.38:86) - كتاب التفسير
We came upon `Abdullah bin Mas`ud and he said "O people! If somebody knows something, he can
say it, but if he does not know it, he should say, "Allah knows better,' for it is a sign of having
knowledge to say about something which one does not know, 'Allah knows better.' Allah said to His
Prophet: 'Say (O Muhammad ! ) No wage do I ask of You for this (Qur'an) nor am I one of the
pretenders (a person who pretends things which do not exist).' (38.86) Now I will tell you about Ad-
Dukhan (the smoke), Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) invited the Quraish to embrace Islam, but they delayed their
response. So he said, "O Allah! Help me against them by sending on them seven years of famine
similar to the seven years of famine of Joseph." So the famine year overtook them and everything was
destroyed till they ate dead animals and skins. People started imagining to see smoke between them
and the sky because of severe hunger. Allah said:
'Then watch you for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible, covering the
people. . . This is painful torment.' (44.10-11) (So they invoked Allah) "Our Lord! Remove the
punishment from us really we are believers." How can there be an (effectual) reminder for them when
an Apostle, explaining things clearly, has already come to them? Then they had turned away from him
and said: 'One taught (by a human being), a madman?' 'We shall indeed remove punishment for a
while, but truly, you will revert (to disbelief).' (44.12-15) Will the punishment be removed on the Day
of Resurrection?" `Abdullah added, "The punishment was removed from them for a while but they
reverted to disbelief, so Allah destroyed them on the Day of Badr. Allah said:
'The day We shall seize you with a mighty grasp. We will indeed (then) exact retribution." (44.16)
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Chapter 1: The Statement of Allah the Most High: Say: "O 'Ibādi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah..." (V39:53) - كتاب التفسير
Some pagans who committed murders in great number and committed illegal sexual intercourse
excessively, came to Muhammad and said, "O Muhammad! Whatever you say and invite people to, is
good: but we wish if you could inform us whether we can make an expiration for our (past evil)
deeds." So the Divine Verses came: 'Those who invoke not with Allah any other god, not kill such life
as Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse.' (25.68) And
there was also revealed:-- 'Say: O My slaves who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of
the Mercy of Allah.' (39.53)
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Chapter 2: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "They made not a just estimate of Allah such as is due to Him..." (V.39:67) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated `Abdullah:
حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ، حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ جَاءَ حَبْرٌ مِنَ الأَحْبَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إِنَّا نَجِدُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلُ السَّمَوَاتِ عَلَى إِصْبَعٍ وَالأَرَضِينَ عَلَى إِصْبَعٍ، وَالشَّجَرَ عَلَى إِصْبَعٍ، وَالْمَاءَ وَالثَّرَى عَلَى إِصْبَعٍ، وَسَائِرَ الْخَلاَئِقِ عَلَى إِصْبَعٍ، فَيَقُولُ أَنَا الْمَلِكُ. فَضَحِكَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَوَاجِذُهُ تَصْدِيقًا لِقَوْلِ الْحَبْرِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم {وَمَا قَدَرُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ وَالأَرْضُ جَمِيعًا قَبْضَتُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَالسَّمَوَاتُ مَطْوِيَّاتٌ بِيَمِينِهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ}
A (Jewish) Rabbi came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he said, "O Muhammad! We learn that Allah will put
all the heavens on one finger, and the earths on one finger, and the trees on one finger, and the water
and the dust on one finger, and all the other created beings on one finger. Then He will say, 'I am the
King.' Thereupon the Prophet (ﷺ) smiled so that his pre-molar teeth became visible, and that was the
confirmation of the Rabbi. Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) recited:
'They made not a just estimate of Allah such as is due to Him. And on the Day of Resurrection the whole of the earth will be grasped by His Hand and the heavens will be rolled up in His Right Hand. Glorified is He, and High is He above all that they associate as partners with Him.' (39.67)
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Chapter 3: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "...And on the Day of Resurrection, the whole of the earth will be grasped by His Hand and the heavens will be rolled up in His Right Hand..." (V.39:67) - كتاب التفسير
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "Allah will hold the whole earth, and roll all the heavens up in His
Right Hand, and then He will say, 'I am the King; where are the kings of the earth?"'
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Hadith 4813
Chapter 4: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "And the Trumpet will be blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are on earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah wills..." (V.39:68) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated Abu Huraira:
حَدَّثَنِي الْحَسَنُ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ خَلِيلٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ، عَنْ زَكَرِيَّاءَ بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ
" إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ بَعْدَ النَّفْخَةِ الآخِرَةِ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِمُوسَى مُتَعَلِّقٌ بِالْعَرْشِ فَلاَ أَدْرِي أَكَذَلِكَ كَانَ أَمْ بَعْدَ النَّفْخَةِ ".
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I will be the first to raise my head after the second blowing of the trumpet and will
see Moses hanging the Throne, and I will not know whether he had been in that state all the time or
after the blowing of the trumpet."
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Chapter 4: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "And the Trumpet will be blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are on earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah wills..." (V.39:68) - كتاب التفسير
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Between the two blowing of the trumpet there will be forty." The people said, "O
Abu Huraira! Forty days?" I refused to reply. They said, "Forty years?" I refused to reply and added:
Everything of the human body will decay except the coccyx bone (of the tail) and from that bone
Allah will reconstruct the whole body.
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Chapter 4: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "And the Trumpet will be blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are on earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah wills..." (V.39:68) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated `Urwa bin Az-Zubair:
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ أَخْبِرْنِي بِأَشَدِّ، مَا صَنَعَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ بَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يُصَلِّي بِفِنَاءِ الْكَعْبَةِ، إِذْ أَقْبَلَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ، فَأَخَذَ بِمَنْكِبِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَلَوَى ثَوْبَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ فَخَنَقَهُ خَنْقًا شَدِيدًا، فَأَقْبَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَأَخَذَ بِمَنْكِبِهِ، وَدَفَعَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَقَالَ {أَتَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلاً أَنْ يَقُولَ رَبِّيَ اللَّهُ وَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ}
I asked `Abdullah bin `Amr bin Al-`As to inform me of the worst thing the pagans had done to Allah's
Apostle. He said: "While Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was praying in the courtyard of the Ka`ba, `Uqba bin Abi
Mu'ait came and seized Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) by the shoulder and twisted his garment round his neck and
throttled him severely. Abu Bakr came and seized `Uqba's shoulder and threw him away from Allah's
Apostle and said, "Would you kill a man because he says: 'My Lord is Allah,' and has come to you
with clear Signs from your Lord?" (40.28)
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Chapter 1: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "And you have not been hiding yourself (in the world), lest your ears, and your eyes, and your skins should testify against you..." (V.41:22) - كتاب التفسير
(regarding) the Verse: 'And you have not been screening against yourself lest your ears, and your eyes
and your skins should testify against you..' (41.22) While two persons from Quraish and their brotherin-
law from Thaqif (or two persons from Thaqif and their brother-in-law from Quraish) were in a
house, they said to each other, "Do you think that Allah hears our talks?" Some said, "He hears a
portion thereof" Others said, "If He can hear a portion of it, He can hear all of it." Then the following
Verse was revealed:
'And you have not been screening against yourself lest your ears, and your eyes and your skins should
testify against you...' (41.22)
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Chapter 2: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "And that thought of yours which you thought about your Lord, has brought you to destruction, and you have become (this Day) of those utterly lost!" (V.41:23) - كتاب التفسير
There gathered near the House (i.e. the Ka`ba) two Quraishi persons and a person from Thaqif (or two
persons from Thaqif and one from Quraish), and all of them with very fat bellies but very little
intelligence. One of them said, "Do you think that Allah hears what we say?" Another said, "He hears
us when we talk in a loud voice, but He doesn't hear us when we talk in a low tone." The third said, "If
He can hear when we talk in a loud tone, then He can also hear when we speak in a low tone." Then
Allah, the Honorable, the Majestic revealed:
'And you have not been screening against yourself lest your ears, and eyes and your skins should
testify against you....' (41.22-23)
This hadith has been narrated through another chain as well.
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Chapter 1: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "...Except to be kind to me for my kinship with you..." (V.42:23) - كتاب التفسير
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ طَاوُسًا، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ. أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ {إِلاَّ الْمَوَدَّةَ فِي الْقُرْبَى} فَقَالَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ قُرْبَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ عَجِلْتَ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَمْ يَكُنْ بَطْنٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إِلاَّ كَانَ لَهُ فِيهِمْ قَرَابَةٌ فَقَالَ إِلاَّ أَنْ تَصِلُوا مَا بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكُمْ مِنَ الْقَرَابَةِ.
That he was asked (regarding):
"Except to be kind to me for my Kinship with you.' (42.23) Sa`id bin Zubair (who was present then)
said, "It means here (to show what is due for) the relatives of Muhammad." On that Ibn `Abbas said:
you have hurried in giving the answer! There was no branch of the tribe of Quraish but the Prophet (ﷺ)
had relatives therein. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I do not want anything from (you ) except to be Kind to me
for my Kinship with you."
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 343
Hadith 4819
Chapter 1: The Statement of Allah the Exalted: "And they will cry: "O Mālik (Keeper of Hell)! Let your Lord make an end of us' He will say, 'Verily, you shall abide forever.'" (V.43:77) - كتاب التفسير
Five things have passed, i.e. the smoke, the defeat of the Romans, the splitting of the moon, Al-Batsha
(the defeat of the infidels in the battle of Badr) and Al-Lizam (the punishment)'.
It (i.e., the imagined smoke) was because, when the Quraish refused to obey the Prophet, he asked
Allah to afflict them with years of famine similar to those of (Prophet) Joseph. So they were stricken
with famine and fatigue, so much so that they ate even bones. A man would look towards the sky and
imagine seeing something like smoke between him and the sky because of extreme fatigue. So Allah
revealed:--
'Then watch you for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible, covering the
people; this is a painfull of torment.' (44.10-11)
Then someone (Abu Sufyan) came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Invoke Allah to
send rain for the tribes of Mudar for they are on the verge of destruction." On that the Prophet (ﷺ) said
(astonishingly) "Shall I invoke Allah) for the tribes of Mudar? Verily, you are a brave man!" But the
Prophet prayed for rain and it rained for them. Then the Verse was revealed.
'But truly you will return (to disbelief).' (44.15) (When the famine was over and) they restored
prosperity and welfare, they reverted to their ways (of heathenism) whereupon Allah revealed:
'On the Day when We shall seize you with a Mighty Grasp. We will indeed (then) exact retribution.'
(44.16) The narrator said, "That was the day of the Battle of Badr."
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 346
Hadith 4822
Chapter 3: The Statement of Allah the Most High: "(They will say) Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers!" (V.44:12) - كتاب التفسير
It is a sign of having knowledge that, when you do not know something, you say: 'Allah knows better.'
Allah said to his Prophet:
'Say: No wage do I ask of you for this (Qur'an), nor am I one of the pretenders (a person who pretends
things which do not exist)' (38.86) When the Quraish troubled and stood against the Prophet (ﷺ) he said,
"O Allah! Help me against them by afflicting them with seven years of famine like the seven years of
Joseph." So they were stricken with a year of famine during which they ate bones and dead animals
because of too much suffering, and one of them would see something like smoke between him and the
sky because of hunger. Then they said: Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we are
believers. (44.12) And then it was said to the Prophet (by Allah), "If we remove it from them. they
will revert to their ways (of heathenism)." So the Prophet (ﷺ) invoked his Lord, who removed the
punishment from them, but later they reverted (to heathenism), whereupon Allah punished them on
the day of the Battle of Badr, and that is what Allah's Statement indicates:
'Then watch for the day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible...we will indeed
(then) exact retribution.' (44.10).