Tafseer of The Poets · Ash-Shu'araa · 26:119
So We saved him and those with him in the laden ship.
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His word ("We saved him and those who were with him in the laden ship") — He says: We saved Noah and those who were with him from among the believers — when We rendered the judgment between them and their people and sent down Our might upon the disbelieving people — in the laden ship (al-fulk al-mashḥūn), that is to say: in the ship loaded and filled to the point of sinking.
In accordance with what we have said concerning the interpretation of His word ("the laden ship"), the mufassirūn also spoke.
* Mention of who said that:
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 His word: ("in the laden ship") — he said: that is to say: the heavily loaded (al-mūqar).
Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ashqar related to us, saying: Abū Kudayna related to us, on the authority of ʿAṭāʾ, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: (al-mashḥūn): the heavily loaded.
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, all on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the word of Allah: ("the laden ship") — he said: the loaded and filled ship.
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, who said: (al-mashḥūn) the fully laden ship.
Al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, saying: Maʿmar informed us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning the word of Allah: ("the laden ship") — he said: the loaded ship.
