They said, "Take a mutual oath by Allāh that we will kill him by night, he and his family. Then we will say to his executor,1080 'We did not witness the destruction of his family, and indeed, we are truthful.'"
Notes
[1080] i.e., the one responsible for executing his will and avenging his blood.
Verse 49 of Surah An-Naml (27:49), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 381 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
They said to one another: “Each one of you should swear by Allah that we will go to him and the believers with him at night, then we will kill them and then say to the one responsible for avenging his blood: ‘We were not present at the murder of Salih or the murder of his followers, and we are truthful in what we have said’”.
They said, “Let us all swear by Allah that we will kill him and his family by night. Then we will tell his heir15, ‘We did not witness the murder of his family, and we are indeed truthful.’”
Notes
[15] i.e., the one who executes his will and avenges his blood.
They said: "Swear one to another by Allâh that we shall make a secret night attack on him and his household, and thereafter we will surely say to his near relatives: ‘We witnessed not the destruction of his household, and verily we are telling the truth.’"
They said: Swear one to another by Allah that we verily will attack him and his household by night, and afterward we will surely say unto his friend: We witnessed not the destruction of his household. And lo! we are truthtellers.
They said: "Swear a mutual oath by Allah that we shall make a secret night attack on him and his people, and that we shall then say to his heir (when he seeks vengeance): 'We were not present at the slaughter of his people, and we are positively telling the truth.'"
They said: Swear to each other by Allah that we will certainly make a sudden attack on him and his family by night, then we will say to his heir: We did not witness the destruction of his family, and we are most surely truthful.
They said, "Swear, one to another, by Allah that indeed we will definitely attack him and his family by night. Thereafter indeed we will definitely say to his patron, "In no way did we testify to the perishing of his family; and surely we are indeed sincere (men)."
