Text of verse 21:63
قَالَ بَلْ فَعَلَهُۥ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَٰذَا فَسْـَٔلُوهُمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ يَنطِقُونَ ٦٣
Transliteration
qāla bal faʿalahu kabīruhum hādhā fasalūhum in kānū yanṭiqūna
Translation
He said, "Rather, this - the largest of them - did it, so ask them, if they should [be able to] speak."
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Verse 63 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:63), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 327 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 63
Al-Mukhtasar
Sarcastically, exposing the helplessness of the idols to the people, Abraham said, “I did not do it; rather, the biggest idol did it. Ask your idols, if indeed they are capable of speaking!”
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Anbya
Other translations of verse 63
He said, “Rather, it was this biggest one who did it. So ask them, if they can speak!”
[Ibrâhîm (Abraham)] said: "Nay, this one, the biggest of them (idols) did it. Ask them, if they can speak!"5
Notes [5] (V.21:63) See the footnote (C) of (V.16:121).
He said: But this, their chief hath done it. So question them, if they can speak.
He said: "Nay, this was done by - this is their biggest one! ask them, if they can speak intelligently!"
He said: Surely (some doer) has done it; the chief of them is this, therefore ask them, if they can speak.
He said, "No indeed, it was this great one of them that performed it; so, ask them in case they (can) pronounce (a word)."
Verse 63 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
بَلْ
bal Nay
فَعَلَهُۥ
faʿalahu (some doer) did it ف ع ل
كَبِيرُهُمْ
kabīruhum Their chief ك ب ر
هَٰذَا
hādhā (is) this
فَسْـَٔلُوهُمْ
fasalūhum So ask them س أ ل
إِن
in if
كَانُوا۟
kānū they (can) ك و ن
يَنطِقُونَ
yanṭiqūna speak ن ط ق
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 3358
لَمْ يَكْذِبْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ ـ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ـ إِلاَّ ثَلاَثَ كَذَبَاتٍ ثِنْتَيْنِ مِنْهُنَّ فِي ذَاتِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، قَوْلُهُ {إِنِّي سَقِيمٌ } وَقَوْلُهُ {بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَذَا}…
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah + 1 other version
Authentic
Sahih Muslim 2371
لَمْ يَكْذِبْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ النَّبِيُّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ قَطُّ إِلاَّ ثَلاَثَ كَذَبَاتٍ ثِنْتَيْنِ فِي ذَاتِ اللَّهِ قَوْلُهُ { إِنِّي سَقِيمٌ} . وَقَوْلُهُ { بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَذَا} وَوَاحِدَةً…
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah + 1 other version
Authentic
Sunan Abu Dawud 2212
إِبْرَاهِيمَ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَمْ يَكْذِبْ قَطُّ إِلاَّ ثَلاَثًا ثِنْتَانِ فِي ذَاتِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى قَوْلُهُ { إِنِّي سَقِيمٌ } وَقَوْلُهُ { بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَذَا } وَبَيْنَمَا هُوَ يَسِيرُ فِي…
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
Authentic
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3166
" لَمْ يَكْذِبْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ فِي شَيْءٍ قَطُّ إِلاَّ فِي ثَلاَثٍ قَوْلُهُ : (إنِّي سَقِيمٌ ) وَلَمْ يَكُنْ سَقِيمًا وَقَوْلُهُ لِسَارَةَ أُخْتِي وَقَوْلُهُ : ( بلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ…
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah + 1 other version
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 3357
لَمْ يَكْذِبْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ إِلاَّ ثَلاَثًا "
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
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