Tafseer of Mary · Maryam · 19:96
Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection.
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He — exalted be His praise — says: those who believe in Allah and His messengers and affirm what has come to them from their Lord, and act in accordance with it, deeming permissible what is permissible therein and forbidding what is forbidden — سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا (the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection) in this world, in the hearts of His believing servants.
In accordance with what we have said concerning this, the exegetes also spoke.
* Mention of those who said this:
Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥa related to me, saying: Sharīk related to us, on the authority of Muslim al-Malāʾī, on the authority of Mujāhid, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: the love of people in this world.
ʿAlī related to me, saying: ʿAbdallāh related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: love.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, saying: my father related to me, saying: my uncle related to me, saying: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: the affection of the Muslims in this world, a good provision, and a truthful tongue.
Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥa related to me, saying: Sharīk related to us, on the authority of ʿUbayd al-Muktib, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: love among the Muslims in this world.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Ḥakkām related to us, on the authority of ʿAnbasa, on the authority of al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazza, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: He loves them and makes them beloved to His creation.
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 — both — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: He loves them and makes them beloved to the believers.
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 same.
Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: ʿAlī ibn Hāshim related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Laylā, on the authority of al-Ḥakam, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: he said: He loves them and makes them beloved.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: al-Ḥakam ibn Bashīr related to us, saying: ʿAmr related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: every servant who turns to Allah, Allah turns the hearts of the servants toward him — and adds to that from Himself.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning the words إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : yes, by Allah, in the hearts of the believers. It has been transmitted to us that Harm ibn Ḥayyān used to say: there is no servant who turns his heart to Allah, but that Allah turns the hearts of the believers toward him, until He grants him their affection and compassion.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, that ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān used to say: there is no person, whether he does good or evil, but that Allah clothes him in the garment of his deed.
Al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, on the authority of al-Thawrī, on the authority of Muslim, on the authority of Mujāhid, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning the words سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا : he said: love. And it has been transmitted that this verse was revealed concerning ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Saʿīd al-Wāsiṭī related to me, saying: Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿImrān related to us, on the authority of ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Sulaymān ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, on the authority of his father, on the authority of his mother Umm Ibrāhīm bint Abī ʿUbayda ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, on the authority of her father, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf: that when he emigrated to Medina, he felt something in his heart on account of being parted from his companions in Mecca — among them Shayba ibn Rabīʿa, ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa and Umayya ibn Khalaf — whereupon Allah the Exalted revealed: إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات سيجعل لهم الرحمن ودا (Indeed, those who believe and perform righteous deeds — the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection).
