Al-Masad
سورة المسدThis is the Arabic text of the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn as-Suyūṭī as the OpenITI corpus has it, from the copy of altafsir.com that the COBHUNI project of Hamburg University took: only the commentary on the verses, with no introductions, no edition and no pagination. Nobody has compared it with a printed book or a manuscript, and no scholar has reviewed it. Each passage stands beside the verses it comments on, which are the Qur’ān text of Tanzil, shown as it is there. Beneath each passage stands its English translation by Feras Hamza, as the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library has it; nobody has compared that copy with the printed book either.
Text fromOpenITICC BY-NC-SA 4.0altafsir.comtaken 2026-10-21English translation: Feras Hamza, Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Fons Vitae, 2008), as published at altafsir.com by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, from the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library. altafsir.comQUL
تَبَّتْ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ 1
{ تبت } خسرت { يدآ أبى لهب } أي جملته، وعبر عنها باليدين مجازا لأن أكثر الأفعال تزاول بهما، وهذه الجملة دعاء { وتب } خسر هو، وهذه خبر كقولهم: أهلكه الله وقد هلك. ولما خوفه النبي بالعذاب فقال: إن كان ما يقول ابن أخي حقا فإني أفتدي منه بمالي وولدي نزل:
Perish, ruined be, the hands of Abū Lahab, in other words, all of him — the use of ‘hands’ here to denote [all of] him is figurative, and is because most actions are performed by them; the statement is an invocation — and perish he!, may he be ruined! (this [tabba] is a predicate, as where one says, ahlakahu’Llāhu wa-qad halak, ‘God destroyed him and he indeed is destroyed’. When the Prophet threatened him with the chastisement, he said, ‘If what my brother’s son says is true, then I shall ransom [myself] from it with my wealth and sons!’; so the following was revealed:
مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَمَا كَسَبَ 2
{ ما أغنى عنه ماله وما كسب } أي كسبه، أي ولده وأغنى بمعنى يغني.
His wealth will not avail him, nor what he has earned (wa-kasab means wa-kasbihi, that is to say, his sons; mā aghnā means [mā] yughnī).
سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ 3
{ سيصلى نارا ذات لهب } أي تلهب وتوقد فهي مآل تكنيته لتلهب وجهه إشراقا وحمرة.
He will [soon] enter a Fire of flames, that is to say, [a fire that is] flaming and ignited (this [statement] is the source of his nickname, [which was given to him] on account of his flaming reddish fair face),
وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ 4
{ وامرأته } عطف على ضمير «يصلى» سوغه الفصل بالمفعول وصفته، وهي أم جميل { حمالة } بالرفع والنصب { الحطب } الشوك والسعدان تلقيه في طريق النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم.p>
and his wife (wa’mra’atuhu is a supplement to the person [of the verb] yaslā, ‘he will enter’, separated by the clause of the direct object and its qualification) — and this was Umm Jamīl — the carrier (read hammālatu or hammālata) of firewood, cactus and thorns which she used to fling into the path of the Prophet (s).
فِى جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌ مِّن مَّسَدٍۭ 5
{ فى جيدها } عنقها { حبل من مسد } أي ليف. وهذه الجملة حال من «حمالة الحطب» الذي هو نعت ل«امرأته» أو خبر مبتدأ مقدر.
with a rope of palm-fibre around her neck (fī jīdihā hablun min masadin is a circumstantial qualifier referring to hammālata’l-hatab, which in turn is [either] a description of imra’atahu, ‘his wife’, or the predicate of an implied subject).