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* تفسير Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs


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And from his narration on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas that he said: “When the verse (Say (unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or cry unto the Beneficent) [17:111] was revealed, the disbelievers of Mecca-Abu Jahl, al-Walid, 'Utbah and Shaybah and their hosts-said: we know no one called the Beneficent except Musaylimah the liar who lives in Yamamah. So he is this Beneficent one, O Muhammad?” And so Allah revealed this: (The Beneficent


Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou
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