Imam Ahmad recorded from Ubayy bin Ka`b that the idolators said to the
Prophet , "O Muhammad! Tell us the lineage of your Lord.'' So Allah revealed
[قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ
أَحَدٌ - اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ - لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ - وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَّهُ
كُفُواً أَحَدٌ ]
(Say: "He is Allah, One. Allah He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there
is non comparable to Him.'') Similar was recorded by At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Jarir
and they added in their narration that he said,
[الصَّمَدُ]
"(As-Samad) is One Who does not give birth, nor was He born, because there is
nothing that is born except that it will die, and there is nothing that dies
except that it leaves behind inheritance, and indeed Allah does not die and He
does not leave behind any inheritance.
[وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَّهُ
كُفُواً أَحَدٌ ]
(And there is none comparable to Him.) This means that there is none similar
to Him, none equal to Him and there is nothing at all like Him.'' Ibn Abi Hatim
also recorded it and At-Tirmidhi mentioned it as a Mursal narration. Then
At-Tirmidhi said, "And this is the most correct.''
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