سورة المسد، الآية ٤
وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ ٤
wa-im'ra-atuhu ḥammālata l-ḥaṭabi
And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.2009
[2009] She used to put thorns in the Prophet's path and slander him (ﷺ) . The word "firewood" was used by the Arabs to allude to slander and backbiting.
Verse 4 of Surah Al-Masad (111:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 603 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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And his wife Umm Jamīl who would also harm the Prophet (peace be upon him) by throwing thorns into his path, will also enter it.
and so will his wife2, the carrier of firewood,
[2] i.e., ’Um Jamīl, who used to throw thorny branches in the Prophet's way and she used to slander him (ﷺ). The word hatab (firewood) was used by the Arabs to allude to slander and backbiting.
And his wife, too, who carries wood (thorns of Sa‘dân which she used to put on the way of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, or use to slander him).2
[2] (V.111:4) ‘And his wife too, who carries wood.’ Mujâhid said, ‘Carries the wood’ means that she used to slander (the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم) and goes about with calumnies.
And his wife, the wood-carrier,
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel!-
And his wife, the bearer of fuel,
And his wife, the constant bearer of firewood,
