Tafseer of The Ascending Stairways · Al-Ma'aarij · 70:13
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
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Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word wa-ṣāḥibatihi wa-akhīh (and his wife and his brother): the most beloved after the most beloved, and the nearest after the nearest of his family and his kin, because of the gravity of that Day.
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 on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His word wa-faṣīlatihi allatī tuʾwīh (and his clan that shelters him): he said: his clan.
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning His word wa-ṣāḥibatihi (and his wife): he said: the ṣāḥiba is the wife; wa-faṣīlatihi allatī tuʾwīh (and his clan that shelters him): he said: his faṣīla is his kindred group.
