وَٱلَّذِينَ تَبَوَّءُو ٱلدَّارَ وَٱلْإِيمَٰنَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يَجِدُونَ فِى صُدُورِهِمْ حَاجَةًۭ مِّمَّآ أُوتُوا۟ وَيُؤْثِرُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ كَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌۭ ۚ وَمَن يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِۦ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
And [also for] those who were settled in al-Madinah and [adopted] the faith before them. They love those who emigrated to them and find not any want in their breasts of what the emigrants were given but give [them] preference over themselves, even though they are in privation. And whoever is protected from the stinginess of his soul - it is those who will be the successful.
Introduction
This is āyah 9 of Sūrat Al-Hashr (The Exile), the 101st sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Medinan period and sits within Juzʾ 28. Medinan verses often address community life, law, and the building of society.
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Revelation & occasion
- Period
- Medinan
- Order revealed
- 101 of 114
- Surah
- Al-Hashr (59)
(Those who entered the city and the faith before them�) [59:9]. Ja�far ibn Burqan related that Yazid al-Asamm said: �The Helpers said: �O Messenger of Allah, divide the land into two equal halves between us and the Emigrants�. He said: �No, they will suffice you their livelihood. Instead you will share the fruits of the land with them while keeping the land itself to yourselves�. They said: �We accept�, and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed (Those who entered the city and the faith before them�)�. (� but prefer (the fugitives) above themselves though poverty become their lot�) [59:9]. Sa�id ibn Ahmad ibn Ja�far al-Mu�adhdhin informed us> Abu �Ali al-Faqih> Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn Abi al-Jahm al-Sabi�i> Nasr ibn �Ali al-Jahdami> �Abd Allah ibn Dawud> Fudayl ibn Ghazwan> Abu Hazim> Abu Hurayrah who related that the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, entrusted one of the folk of the Platform (al-Suffah) to a man from the Helpers. The latter took the former to his family and asked his wife: �Do we have anything [to feed him]?� She said: �We do not have anything except the children�s food�. He said: �Put them to sleep and then bring me the food. And when you put the food down, turn the lamp off�. She did as her husband requested. The Helper offered what he had to his guest. The following morning he took him back to the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace. The Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, said: �Indeed, the dwellers of the heavens are amazed at what you two have done�. This verse was then revealed (� but prefer (the fugitives) above themselves though poverty become their lot�). This was narrated by Bukhari> Musaddid> �Abd Allah ibn Dawud, and also by Muslim> Abu Kurayb> Waki�, and both Ibn Dawud and Waki� related it from Fudayl ibn Ghazwan. Abu �Abd Allah ibn Ishaq al-Muzakki informed us> Abu�l-Hasan Muhammad ibn �Abd Allah al-Sulayti> Abu�l-�Abbas ibn �Isa ibn Muhammad al-Marwazi> al-Mustajir ibn al-Salt> al-Qasim ibn al-Hakam al-�Urani> �Ubayd Allah ibn al-Walid> Muharib ibn Dithar> �Abd Allah ibn �Umar who said: �One of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, was gifted a sheep�s head. The man said [to himself]: �My brother so-and-so is more in need of it than I�, and he sent it to him. This sheep�s head was sent from one person to another � it was handled by seven households � until it returned to the first man who was gifted it in the first place. This verse (� but prefer (the fugitives) above themselves though poverty become their lot�), up to the end, was revealed about this�.
Tafsir
Hafiz Ibn Kathir
Chains of transmission
Oral — isnād
- ~610–632 CERevelation & memorisation
Received by the Prophet ﷺ and preserved by the ḥuffāẓ (memorisers) among the Companions.
- 1st century AHMutawātir transmissionawaiting curation
Carried by mass-transmission through the generations of qurrāʾ.
- TodayLiving chainsawaiting curation
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Written — the manuscript record
- ~650 CEʿUthmānic codicesawaiting curation
The standardised muṣḥaf sent to the great cities (e.g. the Topkapı and Samarqand codices).
- 8th–10th c.Early Ḥijāzī & Kūfic foliosawaiting curation
Surviving leaves in Birmingham, Sanaa, Paris (BnF) and beyond.
- Modern printModern printawaiting curation
The 1924 Cairo edition → today: the standard printed muṣḥaf used worldwide.
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