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| عبس ʻAbasa He Frowned | |
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| Classification | Meccan |
| Position | Juzʼ 30 |
| No. ofverses | 42 |
| No. of words | 133 |
| No. of letters | 538 |
| Quran |
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ʻAbasa (Arabic:عبس, "He Frowned") is the 80th chapter (sura) of theQur'an, with 42 verses (ayat). It is aMeccan sura. The Surah is so designated after the word `abasa with which it opens.[1]
According to traditionalSunni narration, the story behind the revelation of the first ten verses of the sura is as follows: Muhammad was preaching Islam toWalid ibn al-Mughira and otherQuraysh chieftains inMecca.Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum came along and asked Muhammad about something. Muhammad did not want to turn his attention away from the chieftains and frowned at ibn Umm Maktum.Allah admonished Muhammad for this action via the first ten verses of Abasa.
The Shia interpretations are unanimous on the view that the person that frowned away was notMuhammad, but an elite fromBanu Umayya.[3] According to them, these verses were descended about the man fromBanu Umayya who was sitting with Muhammad. At the same time, Abdullah bin Umm Maktum(Ibn Taymiyyah) entered, when the rich man saw the poverty stricken Abdullah he drew himself aside, not to get his dress dirty and contracted his facial expressions which got uneasy. In those verses God stated his acts and criticized and condemned them.[4][5]
The word used was Abasa, which refers to 'He'. The Quran does not directly impose the frowning on Muhammad, instead it says "He frowned away", making it widely open for interpretation.[6][7]
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