Transliteration:( 'Utullim ba'da zaalika zaneem )
13. This means an illegitimate baby is a baby coming out of adultery. On the revelation of this verse Waleed came to his mother and said that the Holy Prophet described ten faults.
Nine of these I find in myself, the tenth one you know it. Tell me the truth; I am illegitimate or not, or I will strike your neck. In response the mother replied: "Your father lacked manpower. I feared that after his death others would take his wealth. So. I called a certain shepherd. You are born from this act (Tafseer Khazain, Roohul Bayaan, Sawi, etc).
From this we learn that anyone who bears. malice for the Holy Prophet ? and utters evil about him is a bastard.
The tafsir of Surah Qalam verse 13 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qalam ayat 8 which provides the complete commentary from verse 8 through 16.
(68:13) the coarse-grained, and above all mean and ignoble;[9]
9. The word zanim is used to describe a person of illegitimate birth, who does not, in fact, belong to a family but has joined it. Saeed bin Jubair and Shabi say that this word is used for a person who is notorious among the people for his evildoing.
The views of the commentators with regard to the person who has been described in these verses are different. Some one says it was Walid bin Mughirah; another one says it was Aswad bin Abdi Yaghuth, and still another has applied this description to Akhnas bin Shurayq, and some other people have pointed to some other persons. But the Quran has only described his attributes without naming him. This shows that in Makkah the man concerned was so notorious for his such qualities that there was no need to name him definitely. Hearing his description every person could understand who was being referred to.
[1725]- i.e., claiming a particular lineage falsely. The description given in these verses is of al-Waleed bin al-Mugheerah (see also 74:11-25) or possibly, as asserted by Ibn Katheer, al-Akhnas bin Shurayq.
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