Tafseer of Those drawn up in Ranks · As-Saaffaat · 37:67
Then indeed, they will have after it a mixture of scalding water.
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The explanation of His, the Exalted, statement: ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ ("Then indeed, for them, on top of it, will surely be a mixture of boiling water") (67)
He, the Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ: then these polytheists (mushrikīn), along with what they eat of this tree — the tree of Zaqqūm — will receive a "shawb," that is, a mixture, according to the expression of the Arabs: "shāba fulān ṭaʿāmahu fahuwa yashūbuhu shawban wa shiyāban" (so-and-so mixed his food, he mixes it mixing). مِنْ حَمِيمٍ: and the "ḥamīm" is the heated water, which is warmed until its heat has reached the utmost; its original form is a passive participle (mafʿūl) that has been converted into the form faʿīl.
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the people of interpretation (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.
* Mention of who said that:
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, concerning his statement ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ, he says: a mixing.
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 statement ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ: this means the drinking of the boiling water on top of the Zaqqūm.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning his statement ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ, he said: a mixture of boiling water.
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: Aḥmad ibn al-Mufaḍḍal related to us, saying: Asbāṭ related to us, on the authority of al-Suddī ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ, he said: the "shawb" is the mixing, and that is the blending.
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning his statement ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ, he said: boiling water that is mixed for them with the foul fluid (ghassāq) that drips from their eyes, and with pus (ṣadīd) from their festering matter and their blood that comes out of their bodies.
