Tafseer of The Mount · At-Tur · 52:13
The Day they are thrust toward the fire of Hell with a [violent] thrust, [its angels will say],
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And His word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا ("on the Day when they will be roughly thrust into the fire of Hell (jahannam)"). The Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: woe, then, to the deniers on the Day when they are thrust.
And His word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ ("on the Day when they are thrust") is an explanation of His word: يَوْمَئِذٍ ("on that Day") and stands in its place. And by His word: يُدَعُّونَ ("they are thrust") is meant: they are driven forward with force and violence. Of this one says: daʿaʿtu fī qafāhu — "I thrust against his neck," when one drives him forward.
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the exegetes (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.
* Mention of who said that:
Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār related to me, saying: Abū Kudayna related to us, on the authority of Qābūs, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا ("on the Day when they are roughly thrust into the fire of Hell"), he said: they are thrust against their necks until they end up in the Fire.
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 word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا , he said: they are thrust.
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 word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا , he said: they are thrust into it with a thrust.
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, concerning: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا , he said: they are thrust into the fire of Hell with a thrust.
Muḥammad 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 — both together — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ ("on the Day when they are thrust into the fire of Hell"), he said: they are thrust.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا , he said: they are driven there with violence.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, with similar import.
It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn, saying: I heard Abū Muʿādh say: ʿUbayd informed us, saying: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk say concerning His word: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا : the thrusting (al-daʿʿ) is the pushing and driving forward by force.
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning the word of Allah: يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا , he said: they are thrust into it with a thrust, and he recited the word of Allah, blessed and exalted is He: فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ ("that is the one who thrusts away the orphan"), he said: he thrusts him away and is harsh toward him.
