110- AN-NASR
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The majority of exegetes agree that al-Naṣr is a late Madinan sūrah. It is most likely the last sūrah to have been revealed in its entirety, although a few verses from al-Baqarah (Sūrah 2), al-Nisāʾ (Sūrah 4), al-Tawbah (Sūrah 9), and perhaps alMāʾidah (Sūrah 5) are believed to have been revealed after it. Some maintain that this sūrah was revealed at the plain of Minā, which lies between Mt. ʿArafat and Makkah, on the tenth of Dhu’l-Ḥijjah, during the Prophet’s Farewell Pilgrimage (Āl), the day after 5:3 had been revealed, while others argue that it was revealed just before 5:3 (Q). Still others maintain that it was revealed in Madinah after the Prophet had returned from the Farewell Pilgrimage. The majority of those who maintain that it was revealed in Madinah and those who maintain that it was revealed during the Farewell Pilgrimage agree that 2:281 was revealed after it; some say that 4:176 and 9:128 were revealed in the interval between al-Naṣr and 2:281, while others maintain that only 2:281 was revealed after alNaṣr
A minority maintain that this sūrah was revealed after the Treaty of Ḥudaybiyah in 6/628 (Ṭb). According to al-Wāḥidī, it was revealed when the Prophet left for the Battle of Ḥunayn in 8/630. The Prophet lived for only two years after this battle. Ibn ʿAbbās is reported to have said, “When the Messenger of God returned from the battle of Ḥunayn and God revealed When God’s Help and Victory come, he said, ‘O ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib! O Fāṭimah! God’s Help and Victory have come. I have seen people entering the religion of God in throngs. I therefore hymn the praises of my Lord and seek forgiveness of Him, for He is Ever Relenting.’” According to Ibn ʿAbbās, through this sūrah the Prophet was informed that his death was near. For this reason, Ibn Masʿūd has said that it is called “The Farewell Sūrah”.
(source: “The Study Quran” a new translation and commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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