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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 146

سورة الصافات، الآية ١٤٦

37:146 Juz 23 Hizb 46 Page 451 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:146

وَأَنۢبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِّن يَقْطِينٍ ۝١٤٦

Transliteration

wa-anbatnā ʿalayhi shajaratan min yaqṭīnin

Translation

And We caused to grow over him a gourd vine.1305

Notes

[1305] Which is known to give cooling shade and to be a repellent of flies.

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Verse 146 of Surah As-Saffat (37:146), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 451 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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Tafsir of verse 146

Al-Mukhtasar

I then made a gourd tree grow for him on that barren earth, which would give him shade.

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Other translations of verse 146

and caused a gourd vine33 to grow over him.

Notes

[33] For its cooling shade and as food for him.

And We caused a plant of gourd to grow over him.

And We caused a tree of gourd to grow above him;

And We caused to grow, over him, a spreading plant of the gourd kind.

And We caused to grow up for him a gourdplant.

And We caused to grow over him a tree of gourds.

Verse 146 word by word

  1. وَأَنۢبَتْنَا wa-anbatnā And We caused to grow ن ب ت
  2. عَلَيْهِ ʿalayhi over him
  3. شَجَرَةً shajaratan a plant ش ج ر
  4. مِّن min of
  5. يَقْطِينٍ yaqṭīnin gourd

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 3414

Once while a Jew was selling something, he was offered a price that he was not pleased with. So, he said, "No, by Him Who gave Moses superiority over all human beings!" Hearing him, an Ansari man got up and slapped him on the face and said, "You say: By Him Who Gave Moses superiority over all human…

لاَ تُفَضِّلُوا بَيْنَ أَنْبِيَاءِ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّهُ يُنْفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ، فَيَصْعَقُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الأَرْضِ، إِلاَّ مَنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ، ثُمَّ يُنْفَخُ فِيهِ أُخْرَى، فَأَكُونُ أَوَّلَ مَنْ بُعِثَ…

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Authentic Sahih al-Bukhari 3416

It is not proper for a servant of Allah to say: I am better than Yūnus ibn Matta

Ibn ‘Abbās (may Allah be please with him) reported: The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not proper for a servant of Allah to say: “I am better than Yūnus ibn Matta." And he linked him to his father.

لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِعَبْدٍ أَنْ يَقُولَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ مَتَّى ‏"

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