Al-Masad

تَبَّتْ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ ۱

{ 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 ۲

{ 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 ۳

{ 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 ۴

{ 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 ۵

{ 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).