Ar-Rahmaan • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ ﴾
“THE MOST GRACIOUS”
And from his narration on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas that he said: �When the verse (Say (unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or cry unto the Beneficent) [17:111] was revealed, the disbelievers of Mecca-Abu Jahl, al-Walid, 'Utbah and Shaybah and their hosts-said: we know no one called the Beneficent except Musaylimah the liar who lives in Yamamah. So he is this Beneficent one, O Muhammad?� And so Allah revealed this: (The Beneficent