[12] VERSES 4 – 9 قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ {4} The...

[12] VERSES 4 – 9 قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ {4} The companions of the pit will be killed [85:4] النَّارِ ذَاتِ الْوَقُودِ {5} The fire will be fuelled with ( of the pit) [85:5] إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ {6} When they sat by it (the fire) [85:6] وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ {7} And they were witnesses upon what they were doing to the Momineen (companions of pit) [85:7] وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ {8} And they persecuted them (Momineen) only due to their believing in Allah, the mighty, the Praised [85:8] الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ {9} For Him (alone) is the Kingdom of the skies and the earth, and Allah is a Witness upon all things [85:9] ابن بابويه في (الغيبة): بإسناده، عن أبي رافع، عن رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله)- في حديث طويل- قال: «ملك مهرويه بن بخت نصر ست عشرة سنة و عشرين يوما، و أخذ عند ذلك دانيال و حفر له جبا في الأرض، و طرح فيه دانيال (عليه السلام) و أصحابه و شيعته من المؤمنين، فألقى عليهم النيران Ibn Babuwayh in Al-Ghayba, by his chai from Abu Raf’a, who has narrated: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww – in a lengthy Hadeeth – said: ‘The kingdom of King Mahrawiya Bin Bakht Nasr was of sixteen years and twenty days, during which he grabbed Daniel -as , and dug a pit for him -as in the earth, and put Daniel -as in it, along with his -as companions, and his -as Shias from the Momineen.

Then he ignited fires on them. فلما رأى أن النيران ليست تضر بهم و لا تقربهم، أستودعهم الجب و فيه الأسد و السباع، و عذبهم بكل لون من العذاب حتى خلصهم الله عز و جل منه، و هم الذين ذكرهم الله في كتابه، فقال عز و جل: قُتِلَ أَصْحابُ الْأُخْدُودِ النَّارِ ذاتِ الْوَقُودِ So when he saw that the fires are neither harming them nor going anywhere near them, he placed them in a well in which were lions and predatory animals, and tortured them with every kind of torture, until Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Rescued them from it, and they are the ones whom Allah -azwj Mentioned in His -azwj Book.