المعنى
What is it that was sent down to the two angels?
الجواب
Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:
- It was magic. [Ibn Masʿūd, al-Ḥasan, Ibn Zayd]
- It was the knowledge of causing separation between a man and his wife, not magic itself. This opinion is narrated from Mujāhid, Qatādah. Both opinions are also attributed to Ibn ʿAbbās. Al-Zajjāj commented that this knowledge of causing separation is a type of magic as well.

