Tafseer of The letter Qaaf · Qaaf · 50:41
And listen on the Day when the Caller will call out from a place that is near -
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The explanation of the saying of the Exalted: وَاسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ الْمُنَادِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ (And listen for the Day when the caller will call out from a nearby place) (50:41).
The Exalted, whose mention is sublime, says to His Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: And listen, O Muḥammad, for the cry of the Day of Resurrection, the day on which our caller will call out with it from a nearby place.
And it has been transmitted that he will call out with it from the Rock of Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis).
* The mention of who said that:
ʿAlī ibn Sahl related to me, he said: al-Walīd ibn Muslim related to us, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Bishr, on the authority of Qatāda, on the authority of Kaʿb, who said concerning وَاسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ الْمُنَادِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ (And listen for the Day when the caller will call out from a nearby place): An angel stands upon the Rock of Jerusalem and calls out: O decayed bones and severed joints, verily Allah commands you to assemble for the decision of the Judgment.
Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning وَاسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ الْمُنَادِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ (And listen for the Day when the caller will call out from a nearby place), he said: We used to be told that he will call out from Jerusalem, from the Rock, and that is the middle of the earth.
And it has been related to us that Kaʿb said: It is the part of the earth that is closest to heaven, by eighteen miles.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, he said: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning يَوْمَ يُنَادِ الْمُنَادِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ (the Day when the caller will call out from a nearby place), he said: It has reached me that he will call out from the Rock that is in Jerusalem.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, he said: my father related to me, he said: my uncle related to me, he said: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, his saying concerning وَاسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ الْمُنَادِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ (And listen for the Day when the caller will call out from a nearby place), he said: It is the cry.
ʿAlī ibn Sahl related to me, he said: al-Walīd ibn Muslim related to us, he said: one of our companions related to me, on the authority of al-Agharr, on the authority of Muslim ibn Ḥayyān, on the authority of Ibn Buraydah, on the authority of his father Buraydah, who said: An angel stands upon the Rock of Jerusalem, with his two fingers in his ears, and calls out. He said: I said: With what does he call out? He said: He says: O people, come to the reckoning. He said: And they come forth just as Allah has said: كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُنْتَشِرٌ (as though they were scattered locusts).
