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سُورَةُ الطُّورِ · 52:40
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أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًۭا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍۢ مُّثْقَلُونَ

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Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

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Introduction

This is āyah 40 of Sūrat At-Tur (The Mount), the 76th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Meccan period and sits within Juzʾ 27. 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
76 of 114
Surah
At-Tur (52)

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

Or were they created by nothing? Or were they themselves the creators (35)Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm belief (36)Or are with them the treasures of your Lord? Or are they the tyrants with the authority to do as they like (37)Or have they a stairway (to heaven), by means of which they listen? Then let their listener produce some manifest proof (38)Or has He only daughters and you have sons (39)Or is it that you ask a wage from them so that they are burdened with a load of debt (40)Or that the Unseen is with them, and they write it down (41)Or do they intend a plot? But those who disbelieve are themselves plotted against (42)Or have they a god other than Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partners (43) Affirming Tawhid and annulling the Plots of the Idolators This is the position where Tawhid of Allah Lordship and Divinity …
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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