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سُورَةُ الجَاثِيَةِ · 45:7
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وَيْلٌۭ لِّكُلِّ أَفَّاكٍ أَثِيمٍۢ

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Woe to every sinful liar

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Introduction

This is āyah 7 of Sūrat Al-Jaathiya (The Crouching), the 65th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Meccan period and sits within Juzʾ 25. 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
65 of 114
Surah
Al-Jaathiya (45)

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

These are the Ayat of Allah, which We recite to you with truth. Then in which speech after Allah and His Ayat will they believe (6)Woe to every sinful liar (7)Who hears the Ayat of Allah Tutla (recited) to him, yet persists with pride as if he heard them not. So announce to him a painful torment (8)And when he learns something of Our Ayat, he makes them a jest. For such there will be a humiliating torment (9)In front of them there is Hell. And that which they have earned will be of no profit to them, nor those whom they have taken as protective friends besides Allah. And theirs will be a great torment (10)This is guidance. And those who disbelieve in the Ayat of their Lord, for them there is a painful torment of Rijz (11) The Description of the Sinful Liar and His Requital Allah the Exalted says, تِلْكَ آيَاتُ اللَّهِ (These are the Ayat of Allah) – in reference to the Qur'an with th…
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.

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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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