Narrated Ibn `Abbas: I intended to ask `Umar so I said, "Who were those two ladies who tried to back each other against the Prophet?" I hardly finished my speech when he said, They were `Aisha and Hafsa."

The Arabs say «صغوت» O «صغوت» meaning "I bowed down" ( «لتصغى» ), which is in Surah Al-An'am, meaning "they bow down." «وإن تظاهرا عليه فإن الله هو مولاه وجبريل وصالح المؤمنين والملائكة بعد ذلك ظهير» means "If you keep launching new attacks against the Prophet (peace be upon him), then his helper is Allah, and Jibreel, and the righteous believers, and besides them, the angels are also helpers." «ظهير» means "helper." «تظاهرون» means "you help one another." Mujahid said, the meaning of the verse «قوا أنفسكم وأهليكم» is that you should advise yourself and your family to fear Allah and teach them good manners.

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: I intended to ask `Umar about those two ladies who back each other against 'Allah's Messenger . For one year I was seeking the opportunity to ask this question, but in vain, until once when I accompanied him for Hajj. While we were in Zahran, `Umar went to answer the call of nature and told me to follow him with some water for ablution. So I followed him with a container of water and started pouring water for him. I found it a good opportunity to ask him, so I said, "O chief of the Believers! Who were those two ladies who had backed each other (against the Prophet)?" Before I could complete my question, he replied, "They were `Aisha and Hafsa."

Narrated `Umar: The wives of the Prophet out of their jealousy, backed each other against the Prophet, so I said to them, "It may be, if he divorced you all, that Allah will give him, instead of you wives better than you." So this Verse was revealed. (66.5)

The meaning of «التفاوت» is difference, distinction. «تفاوت» and «تفوت» both have the same meaning. «تميز‏» means to be torn into pieces. «مناكبها‏» means at its edges. «تدعون» (with shaddah on dal) and «تدعون» (with sukoon on dal) both have the same meaning, just as «تذكرون‏.‏» and «تذكرون‏» (with sukoon on dhal) have the same meaning. «يقبضن‏» means they flap their wings (or fold them). Mujahid said the meaning of «صافات‏» is with their wings spread open. By «نفور» , disbelief and wickedness are meant.

Abdullah ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: «يتخافتون» means secretly, whispering. Qatadah said: The meaning of «حرد» is striving from the heart, or miserliness, or anger. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The meaning of «لضالون» is that we forgot the place of our garden, we went astray and went ahead. Others said: The meaning of «صريم» is the morning which is separated from the night, or the night which is separated from the day. «صريم» also refers to that sand which is separated from large sand dunes. «صريم» , «مصروم» is in the meaning as in «قتيل» , and «مقتول» is in the meanings.

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: (regarding the Verse):-- 'Cruel after all that, base-born (of illegitimate birth).' (68.13) It was revealed in connection with a man from Quaraish who had a notable sign (Zanamah) similar to the notable sign which usually-hung on the neck of a sheep (to recognize it).

Narrated Haritha bin Wahb Al-Khuza`i: I heard the Prophet saying. "May I tell you of the people of Paradise? Every weak and poor obscure person whom the people look down upon but his oath is fulfilled by Allah when he takes an oath to do something. And may I inform you of the people of the Hell-Fire? They are all those violent, arrogant and stubborn people."

Narrated Abu Sa`id: I heard the Prophet saying, "Our Lord will lay bare His Shin, and then all the Believers, men and women, will prostrate themselves before Him, but there will remain those who used to prostrate in the world for showing off and for gaining good reputation. Such people will try to prostrate (on the Day of Judgment) but their back swill be as stiff as if it is one bone (a single vertebra).

«عيشة راضية‏ مرضية‏» is in the meaning of «مرضية‏» , that is, a pleasant life. «القاضية‏» refers to the first death, meaning, "Would that the first death that came had kept me dead and I had not been revived after it." «من أحد عنه حاجزين‏ أحد» applies to both singular and plural. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that by «وتين‏» is meant the vein of life, the cutting of which causes a person to die. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said «طغى‏ الماء» means the water rose very high. «بالطاغية‏» due to their mischief, some said that by «طاغيه» is meant the wind; it became so forceful that it went beyond the control of the angels, just as the water overwhelmed the people of Noah (peace be upon him).