Tafseer of The Cloaked One · Al-Muddaththir · 74:11
Leave Me with the one I created alone
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And His statement: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) — the Exalted, whose remembrance is exalted, says to His Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: Leave to Me, O Muḥammad, the affair of the one whom I created alone in the belly of his mother, who had nothing of wealth nor children.
And it has been mentioned that what is meant by this is: al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra al-Makhzūmī.
* Mention of who said that:
Sufyān related to us, saying: Wakīʿ related to us, saying: Yūnus ibn Bukayr related to us, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad, the client of Zayd, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr or ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: Allah revealed concerning al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra His statement: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) and His statement: فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْأَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ ... (By your Lord, We shall certainly question them all) to the end of it.
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: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) — he said: I created him alone, with neither wealth nor children with him.
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Wakīʿ related to us, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Sharīk, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) — he said: it was revealed concerning al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra, and thus is the entire creation.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His statement: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) — and that is al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra; Allah brought him forth solitary from the belly of his mother, with neither wealth nor children, after which Allah granted him wealth and children, prosperity and increase.
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning His statement: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ... ) up to His statement: إِنْ هَذَا إِلا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ ... (this is nothing but transmitted sorcery), until he came to سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ (I shall cause him to burn in Saqar) — he said: this verse was revealed concerning al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra.
It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn, who said: I heard Abū Muʿādh saying: ʿUbayd informed us, saying: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk saying concerning His statement: ( ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ) — he means al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra.
