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سُورَةُ القِيَامَةِ · 75:31
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فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ

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And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed.

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Introduction

This is āyah 31 of Sūrat Al-Qiyaama (The Resurrection), the 31st 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
31 of 114
Surah
Al-Qiyaama (75)

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

Nay, when it reaches to the collarbones (26)And it will be said: "Who can cure him? (27)And he will think that it was the parting (28)And one shank will be joined with another shank (29)The drive will be on that Day to your Lord (30)So, he neither believed nor prayed (31)But on the contrary, he denied and turned away (32)Then he walked in conceit to his family admiring himself (33)Woe to you! And then woe to you (34)Again, woe to you! And then woe to you (35)Does man think that he will be left neglected (36)Was he not a Nutfah of semen emitted (37)Then he became an 'Alaqah; then shaped and fashioned in due proportion (38)And made of him two sexes, male and female (39)Is it not so then, that He would be able to give life to the dead (40) Certainty will occur at the Time of Death Allah informs of the condition at the time of death and what terrors it contains. May Allah make us firm at t…
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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