Sirat Ibn Hisham 413
[ أَبُو جَهْلٍ، وَمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ ] وَأَبُو جَهْلِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، لَمَّا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُّومِ تَخْوِيفًا بِهَا لَهُمْ، قَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ الَّتِي يُخَوِّفُكُمْ بِهَا مُحَمَّدٌ ؟ قَالُوا: لَا؛ قَالَ: عَجْوَةُ يَثْرِبَ بِالزُّبْدِ، وَاَللَّهِ لَئِنْ اسْتَمْكَنَّا مِنْهَا لَنَتَزَقَّمَنَّها تَزَقُّمًا. فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيهِ: إِنَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُّومِ طَعَامُ الْأَثِيمِ كَالْمُهْلِ يَغْلِي فِي الْبُطُونِ كَغَلْيِ الْحَمِيمِ أَيْ لَيْسَ كَمَا يَقُولُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الْمُهْلُ: كُلُّ شَيْءٍ أَذَبْتُهُ، مِنْ نُحَاسٍ أَوْ رَصَاصٍ أَوْ مَا أَشْبَهَ ذَلِكَ فِيمَا أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ
Translation
✧ [Abū Jahl, and what God revealed concerning him] And Abū Jahl b. Hishām, when God (mighty and glorious is He) mentioned the Tree of Zaqqūm to frighten them with it, said: “O assembly of Quraysh, do you know what the Tree of Zaqqūm is with which Muḥammad frightens you?” They said: “No.” He said: “It is the ʿajwah dates of Yathrib with butter. By God, if we get hold of it, we shall indeed gobble it up greedily.” So God (exalted is He) revealed concerning him: “Indeed the Tree of Zaqqūm is the food of the sinful; like molten metal, it boils in the bellies, like the boiling of scalding water” — that is, it is not as he says. Ibn Hishām said: al-muhl is everything that you melt, whether copper, lead, or the like of that, according to what Abū ʿUbaydah informed me.
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