Tafseer of The Smoke · Ad-Dukhaan · 44:26
And crops and noble sites
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( And a noble station ) — He says: and a place where they used to stand, a noble, distinguished spot.
The exegetes (ahl al-taʾwīl) then differed concerning the meaning of Allah's describing that station as noble. Some of them said: He described it thus because of its distinction, and that is because it was the station of kings and rulers. They said: by this are meant the pulpits (the minbars).
* Mention of who said that:
Jaʿfar ibn ibnat Isḥāq al-Azraq related to me, saying: Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī related to us, saying: Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir related to us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His word ( And a noble station ): he said: the pulpits (the minbars).
Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾida related to me, saying: ʿAbdallāh ibn Dāwūd al-Wāsiṭī related to us, saying: Sharīk related to us, on the authority of Sālim al-Afṭas, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning His word ( And a noble station ): he said: the pulpits (the minbars).
And others said: He described that station with nobility because of its beauty and splendor.
* Mention of who said that:
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word ( And a noble station ): that is to say: beautiful.
