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سُورَةُ المُدَّثِّرِ · 74:54
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كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌۭ

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Introduction

This is āyah 54 of Sūrat Al-Muddaththir (The Cloaked One), the 4th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Meccan period and sits within Juzʾ 29. 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
4 of 114
Surah
Al-Muddaththir (74)

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

Every person is a pledge for what he has earned (38)Except those on the Right (39)In Gardens they will ask one another (40)About criminals (and they will say to them)(41)"What has caused you to enter Hell? (42)They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer the Salah, (43)"Nor did we feed the poor; (44)"And we used to speak falsehood with vain speakers. (45)"And we used to deny the Day of Recompense, (46)"Until Al-Yaqin came to us. (47)So no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them (48)Then what is wrong with them that they turn away from admonition (49)As if they were wild donkeys (50)Fleeing from a Qaswarah (51)Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out (52)Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter (53)Nay, verily, this is an admonition (54)So, whosoever wills receives admonition from it (55)And they will not receive admonition unless Allah …
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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