معنی
What does the attached pronoun in "they recognise him/it" refer to?
جواب
Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:
- It refers to the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. [Ibn ʿAbbās]
- It refers to the change of the qiblah to the Kaʿbah. [Abū al-ʿĀliyah, Qatādah, al-Suddī, Muqātil. Also narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās]