Tafseer of The Spider · Al-Ankaboot · 29:27
And We gave to Him Isaac and Jacob and placed in his descendants prophethood and scripture. And We gave him his reward in this world, and indeed, he is in the Hereafter among the righteous.
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The statement concerning the interpretation of His word, the Exalted: وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ إِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَجَعَلْنَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْكِتَابَ وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَإِنَّهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ لَمِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ (27) ("And We bestowed upon him Isḥāq and Yaʿqūb, and We placed prophethood and the Book among his progeny, and We gave him his reward in the worldly life, and indeed, in the Hereafter he is among the righteous").
The Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: And We bestowed upon him, from Ourselves, Isḥāq as a child, and Yaʿqūb after him as the child of his child.
As Mohammed 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: وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ إِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ ("And We bestowed upon him Isḥāq and Yaʿqūb"). He said: The two of them are the children of Ibrāhīm.
And His word: وَجَعَلْنَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْكِتَابَ ("And We placed prophethood and the Book among his progeny"), in the sense of the plural — what is meant are the Books (al-kutub), but it is expressed in the singular, after the manner of their saying: "the dirham and the dīnār are plentiful with so-and-so."
And His word: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life"). The Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: And We gave him the reward for his trial for Our sake in the worldly life; وَإنَّهُ ("and indeed, he") is moreover فِي الآخِرَةِ لَمِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ ("in the Hereafter surely one of the righteous"). So for him there is likewise the reward of the righteous, without his portion having been diminished by what he was given in the worldly life as reward for his trial for the sake of Allah, with respect to what he has with Him in the Hereafter.
And it has been said: The reward which Allah, mighty and exalted is He, mentioned that He gave to Ibrāhīm in the worldly life is the goodly praise and the righteous progeny.
* Mention of who said that:
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Ibn Yamān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life"). He said: The praise.
Abū al-Sāʾib related to me, saying: Ibn Idrīs related to us, on the authority of Layth, saying: Mujāhid sent a man named Qāsim to ʿIkrima to ask him about his word: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَإِنَّهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ لَمِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life, and indeed, in the Hereafter he is among the righteous"). He said that he said: His reward in the worldly life is that every religious community takes him as a patron, while with Allah he is among the righteous. He said: Then he returned to Mujāhid, and he said: He has hit upon the truth.
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Ibn Yamān related to us, on the authority of Mandal, on the authority of one whom he named, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life"). He said: The righteous progeny and the praise.
ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life"). He says: The good remembrance.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning his word: وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ("And We gave him his reward in the worldly life"). He said: Well-being, a righteous deed, and a goodly praise; you will not meet anyone of the religious communities but that he regards Ibrāhīm with goodwill and takes him as a patron. وَإِنَّهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ لَمِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ ("And indeed, in the Hereafter he is among the righteous").
