Tafseer of The Winnowing Winds · Adh-Dhaariyat · 51:1
By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing
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The explanation of the saying of the Exalted: وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter) (51:1).
The Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter); He means: by the winds that scatter the dust. One says: "dharat al-rīḥu al-turāba" and "adharat" (the wind scattered the dust).
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the scholars of exegesis have spoken.
* The mention of who said that:
Hannād ibn al-Sarī related to us, saying: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ related to us, on the authority of Simāk, on the authority of Khālid ibn ʿUrʿura, who said: A man stood up and turned to ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: What are "al-dhāriyāt dharwan"? He said: That is the wind.
Ibn al-Muthannā related to us, saying: Mohammed ibn Jaʿfar related to us, saying: Shuʿba related to us, on the authority of Simāk, who said: I heard Khālid ibn ʿUrʿura say: I heard ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, when he had come to the open square (al-raḥba) and was wearing two cloaks, and they said: If only there were a man to pose a question while the people listened. He said: Then Ibn al-Kawwāʾ stood up and said: What are "al-dhāriyāt dharwan"? He said: Those are the winds.
Mohammed ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd al-Hilālī and Mohammed ibn Bashshār related to me, both saying: Mohammed ibn Khālid ibn ʿAthma related to us, saying: Mūsā ibn Yaʿqūb al-Zamʿī related to us, saying: Abū al-Ḥuwayrith related to us, on the authority of Mohammed ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, who informed him and said: I heard ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, addressing the people, then ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Kawwāʾ stood up and said: O Commander of the Believers, inform me about the saying of Allah, blessed and exalted is He: وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter). He said: Those are the winds.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: Yaḥyā related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, on the authority of Abū al-Ṭufayl, who said: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah be pleased with him, was asked about "al-dhāriyāt dharwan," and he said: The wind.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, on the authority of Abū al-Ṭufayl, on the authority of ʿAlī, concerning وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter), he said: The wind.
Mihrān said: It was related to us on the authority of Simāk, on the authority of Khālid ibn ʿUrʿura, who said: I asked ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, about وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter), and he said: The wind.
Ibn al-Muthannā related to us, saying: Mohammed ibn Jaʿfar related to us, saying: Shuʿba related to us, on the authority of al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazza, who said: I heard Abū al-Ṭufayl say: I heard ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, say: They will not ask me about a speaking book or a past sunna, but that I will tell it to you. Then Ibn al-Kawwāʾ asked him about "al-dhāriyāt," and he said: Those are the winds.
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Ṭalq related to us, on the authority of Zāʾida, on the authority of ʿĀṣim, on the authority of ʿAlī ibn Rabīʿa, who said: Ibn al-Kawwāʾ asked ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا ? He said: That is the wind.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Jarīr related to us, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rufayʿ, on the authority of Abū al-Ṭufayl, who said: Ibn al-Kawwāʾ said to ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him: What are "al-dhāriyāt dharwan"? He said: The wind.
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb related to me, on the authority of Abū Ṣakhra, on the authority of Abū Muʿāwiya al-Bajalī, on the authority of Abū al-Ṣahbāʾ al-Bakrī, on the authority of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah be pleased with him, who, while he was on the pulpit, said: No one asks me about a verse from the Book of Allah, but that I inform him of it. Then Ibn al-Kawwāʾ stood up and wished to ask him what Ṣabīgh had asked ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: What are "al-dhāriyāt dharwan"? ʿAlī said: The winds.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, that a man asked ʿAlī about "al-dhāriyāt," and he said: Those are the winds.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Wahb ibn ʿAbd Allāh, on the authority of Abū al-Ṭufayl, who said: Ibn al-Kawwāʾ asked ʿAlī and said: What are "al-dhāriyāt dharwan"? He said: The winds.
Yūnus related to us, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning His saying وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا (By the scattering winds that scatter): Ibn ʿAbbās used to say: Those are the winds.
Mohammed ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us, all on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His saying وَالذَّارِيَاتِ (the scattering winds), he said: The winds.
