Al-Insan ("Man") (alternative names: al-Dahr, "Endless time", Hal Ata, "Has There Not come") is the 76th chapter (

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) of the

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, with 31 verses ( ayat).

Summary

:1-2 Man conceived and born by the power of God :3-4 Unbelievers warned by the terrors of hell :5-22 The rewards of the Muslims in

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:23 The Quran revealed by degrees :24-26 Muhammad and the Muslims exhorted to patience and prayer :27-28 Unbelievers love the present life :29-31 Only those saved whom God willeth to save

Revelation

According to most scholars of the Islamic tradition, the chapter is a

Medinan surah The Madni Surahs (Surah Madaniyah) or Madani chapters of the Quran are the latest 28 Surahs that, according to Islamic tradition, were revealed at Medina after Muhammad's hijrat from Mecca. The community was larger and more developed, as opposed ...

, i.e. it was revealed during the Medinan phase of

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's prophethood. Some

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say that verse 24 was an exception and was revealed in Mecca, and others say that verses 23–31 were revealed in Mecca. Yet others, a minority, say that the entire chapter was revealed in Mecca, thus classifying it as a

Meccan surah The Meccan surat are, according to the timing and contextual background of supposed revelation (''asbāb al-nuzūl''), the chronologically earlier chapters ('' suwar'', singular ''sūrah'') of the Qur'an. The traditional chronological order attrib ...

. Most

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sources, and some Sunni ones, linked the revelation of the verses 5–22—which discuss "the pious" (''al-abrar'') and the rewards that await them—to an experience of the family of

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...

(Muhammad's son-in-law) and his wife

Fatimah Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, ...

. According to this account, the family

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for three days to fulfill a vow they had made. In each evening, when the family was about to break their fast, a needy person knocked on their door asking for food. The family gave food to each of them. The family had so little food that this charity meant that they had no food left and had only water for the evening. On the fourth day, Muhammad met with the family and saw them in dire hunger. According to the account, at this point

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revealed the verses and congratulated Muhammad for having such a family. This account appears in several

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(''tafsir''), including

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's ''

Tafsir Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...

'',

Shaykh Tabarsi Abu Ali Fadhl ibn Hasan Tabresi ( Persian/Arabic:ابو على فضل بن حسن طبرسى) known as Shaykh Tabarsi, was a 12th-century Persian Shia scholar who died in 548 AH (1153 CE). Life Tabresi was born in the year 1073 AD in Tabarista ...

's ''

Majma' al-Bayan Majma‘ al-Bayan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an ( ar, مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن) is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi. This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir. Tabarsi was a man of g ...

'' and

Mahmud al-Alusi Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī ( ar, أبو الثناء شهاب الدين سيد محمود بن عبد الله بن محمود الحسيني الآلوسي الب� ...

's ''

Ruh al-Ma'ani ''Rūh al-Ma'ānī fī Tafsīri-l-Qur'āni-l-'Aẓīm wa Sab'u-l-Mathānī'' ( ar, روح المعاني في تفسير القرآن العظيم والسبع المثاني) is a 30-volume tafsir of the Qur'an, authored by the 19th-century Iraqi ...

''.

Recitation by Muhammad

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narrated by

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said that Muhammad used to recite ''Al-Insan'' together with '' Al-Sajdah'' (chapter 32 of the Quran) for the early morning prayer ('' fajr'') every Friday. This report also appears in

Tafsir ibn Kathir ''Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm'' better known as ''Tafsir Ibn Kathir'' is the tafsir by Ibn Kathir (died 774 AH). It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran. It also includes jurisprud ...

.Translation of

Sahih Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...

(d.870)
Volume 2, Book 13, Friday Prayer, Hadith Number 16
.

Names

The chapter is named after ''Al-Insan'' ("Man"), a word that appears in the first verse. Other common names for the chapter include ''Hal Ata'', "Has There Not Come", after the first two words in the first verse; ''Al-Dahr'', "Endless Time", a word that also appears in the first verse; and Al-Abrar,

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for "The Pious", after the description of the pious and their rewards in verses 5–22.

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