Tafseer of Hud · Hud · 11:32
They said, "O Noah, you have disputed us and been frequent in dispute of us. So bring us what you threaten us, if you should be of the truthful."
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The explanation of the word of Allah the Exalted: قَالُوا يَا نُوحُ قَدْ جَادَلْتَنَا فَأَكْثَرْتَ جِدَالَنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَا إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ ("They said: 'O Noah, you have disputed with us and made your dispute with us excessive. So bring upon us what you promise us, if you are of the truthful.'") (32)
Abū Jaʿfar said: Allah the Exalted says: The people of Noah said to Noah, may peace be upon him: You have disputed with us and made your dispute with us excessive. So bring upon us what you promise us of the punishment, if you are of the truthful in your promises and in your claim that you are a messenger of Allah to us. By this they meant that he would not be capable of doing so.
18117 — Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: ("you have disputed with us"), he said: you have contended with us.
18118 — Al-Muthanná related to me, saying: Abū Ḥudhayfa related to us, saying: Shibl related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: the same.
18119 — And al-Muthanná related to me, saying: Isḥāq related to us, saying: ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar related to us, on the authority of Warqāʾ, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: the same.
18120 — Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: Al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to me, on the authority of Ibn Jurayj, he said: Mujāhid said: ("They said: O Noah, you have disputed with us"), he said: you have contended with us. ("You have made your dispute excessive, so bring upon us what you promise us") — Ibn Jurayj said: as a denial of the punishment and as a claim that it was false.
