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تفسير القرآن

Al-Samʿānī

أبو المظفر السمعاني (ت ٤٨٩ هـ)

Short and steady — the plain meaning, with the reports that bear on it and little else.

Al-Anbiyāʾ 21:8 Juzʾ 17 Page 322

‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏

And We did not make the prophets forms not eating food, nor were they immortal [on earth].

Read in the muṣḥaf

قَوْله تَعَالَى: ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ أَي: ذَوي أجساد.

وَقَوله: ‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ مَعْلُوم. وَقَوله: ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ أَي: فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَهَذَا رد لقَولهم: ﴿وَقَالُوا مَا لهَذَا الرَّسُول يَأْكُل الطَّعَام﴾ الْآيَة.

The same ayah, in another commentary

Al-Anbiyāʾ 21:8