Tafseer of The Bee · An-Nahl · 16:86
And when those who associated others with Allah see their "partners," they will say," Our Lord, these are our partners [to You] whom we used to invoke besides You." But they will throw at them the statement, "Indeed, you are liars."
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Allah, exalted is His remembrance, says: And when the polytheists (mushrikīn) on the Day of Judgement see those false gods (āliha) and idols which they worshipped besides Allah, they will say: "O our Lord, these are our associates in the disbelief (kufr) in You, and the associates whom we called gods besides You." Allah, exalted is His remembrance, says: فألْقَوْا — that is to say: their associates whom they worshipped besides Allah put the word to them — He says: They said to them: "You are surely lying, O polytheists — we never called you to worship us."
And this is in agreement with what we have said concerning this, according to the people of interpretation.
Those who said this:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us; and al-Muthannā related to me, saying: Abū Ḥudhayfa related to us, saying: Shibl related to us — all on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning فَأَلْقَوْا إِلَيْهِمُ الْقَوْلَ : he said: They communicated it to them.
Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to me, on the authority of Ibn Jurayj, on the authority of Mujāhid — the like of the above.
