Tafseer of The Overwhelming · Al-Ghaashiya · 88:16
And carpets spread around.
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And His words: وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ("and scattered carpets") (88:16) — the Exalted, whose mention is glorious, says: and therein are numerous rugs and carpets, scattered and spread out. Its singular is: zirbiyya, and that is the rug (al-ṭinfisa) with a fine, thin pile.
And in accordance with what we have said about that, the exegetes (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.
* Mention of who said that:
Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, he said: Tawba al-ʿAnbarī related to us, on the authority of ʿIkrima ibn Khālid, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmmār, he said: I saw ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb — may Allah be pleased with him — praying upon an ʿabqarī, and those are the zarābī (carpets).
Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ("and scattered carpets"): the spread-out (rugs).
