Tafseer of Those drawn up in Ranks · As-Saaffaat · 37:101
So We gave him good tidings of a forbearing boy.
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The explanation of His statement, the Exalted: فَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِغُلَامٍ حَلِيمٍ ("Then We gave him the glad tidings of a forbearing boy") (101)
He, the Exalted, whose mention is sublime, says: and We gave Ibrāhīm the glad tidings of a forbearing boy, that is to say: a boy who possesses forbearance (ḥilm) when he has grown up; as for his childhood in the cradle, however, he is not described therewith. And it has been mentioned that the boy of whom Allah gave Ibrāhīm the glad tidings was Isḥāq.
* Mention of who said that:
Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn related to us, on the authority of Yazīd, on the authority of ʿIkrima: فَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِغُلَامٍ حَلِيمٍ, he said: that is Isḥāq.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda فَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِغُلَامٍ حَلِيمٍ: he received the glad tidings of Isḥāq. He said: with forbearance (ḥilm) no one is praised except Isḥāq and Ibrāhīm.
