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Ash-Shu‘arā’ 26:210

By TheQuran.com research team (original site, 2020–21) · last edited 22 Dec 2020

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The verses

26:210
وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتْ بِهِ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ ٢١٠
The devils did not bring it down. — Marmaduke Pickthall
26:211
وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لَهُمْ وَمَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ ٢١١
It is not meet for them, nor is it in their power, — Marmaduke Pickthall
26:212
إِنَّهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّمْعِ لَمَعْزُولُونَ ٢١٢
Lo! verily they are banished from the hearing. — Marmaduke Pickthall

The issue

The text states that the devils did not descend with the Qur’ān. However, in another place the Qur’ān states that Satan interfered in the process of revelation and spoke through Muḥammad. (See the critical analysis of Q 22.52, Qur’ān Dilemma 2: 417.)

Sources cited

Sources added in review (the original item cited none)

  1. al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-bayān, on Q 22:52 · link checked 2026-10-12
  2. Shahab Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017) · link checked 2026-10-12

This item merges 3 entries of the original site that carried the same text across the passage (old ids 403, 404, 405; the old ids redirect here).