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سُورَةُ الصَّافَّاتِ · 37:19
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فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌۭ وَٰحِدَةٌۭ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَنظُرُونَ

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It will be only one shout, and at once they will be observing.

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Introduction

This is āyah 19 of Sūrat As-Saaffaat (Those who set the Ranks), the 56th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Meccan period and sits within Juzʾ 23. Meccan verses tend to address faith, the oneness of God, and the hereafter.

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Revelation & occasion

Asbāb al-Nuzūl
Period
Meccan
Order revealed
56 of 114
Surah
As-Saaffaat (37)

No specific occasion of revelation (Asbāb al-Nuzūl) is recorded for this āyah in al-Wāḥidī's collection. Many verses were revealed without a single triggering event.

Commentary

Tafsir

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Hafiz Ibn Kathir

Then ask them: "Are they harder to create, or those whom We have created?" Verily, We created them of a sticky clay (11)Nay, you wondered while they mock (12)And when they are reminded, they pay no attention (13)And when they see an Ayah (a sign) from Allah, they mock at it (14)And they say: "This is nothing but evident magic! (15)"When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we verily be resurrected? (16)"And also our fathers of old? (17)Say : "Yes, and you shall then be humiliated. (18)It will be a single Zajrah, and behold, they will be staring (19) The Certainty of Life after Death Allah says: 'Ask these people, those who deny the resurrection, which is harder to create? Are they more difficult to create or the heavens, the earth, the angels, devils, the mighty creatures – everything in between them?' Ibn Mas'ud said that they admitted that these things were harder to cre…
Provenance

Chains of transmission

Oral — isnād

  1. ~610–632 CERevelation & memorisation

    Received by the Prophet ﷺ and preserved by the ḥuffāẓ (memorisers) among the Companions.

  2. 1st century AHMutawātir transmissionawaiting curation

    Carried by mass-transmission through the generations of qurrāʾ.

  3. TodayLiving chainsawaiting curation

    Continuous ijāzah chains link reciters today back to the Prophet ﷺ.

Verified isnād chains for this āyah will be added by curators.

Written — the manuscript record

  1. ~650 CEʿUthmānic codicesawaiting curation

    The standardised muṣḥaf sent to the great cities (e.g. the Topkapı and Samarqand codices).

  2. 8th–10th c.Early Ḥijāzī & Kūfic foliosawaiting curation

    Surviving leaves in Birmingham, Sanaa, Paris (BnF) and beyond.

  3. Modern printModern printawaiting curation

    The 1924 Cairo edition → today: the standard printed muṣḥaf used worldwide.

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