Al-Anʿām

24 passages reference this surah

From 19 books in our audiobook library. Each passage is also spoken aloud in the app.

Al-Ghunya li-Ṭālibī Ṭarīq al-Ḥaqq — Volume One

Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Timeless Classics

1. "For 40 cattle, a two-year-old cow is due. For 60 cattle, two one-year-old calves are due. When reaching 70 cattle, one one-year-old calf and one two-year-old cow are due. For every 30 cattle, one should give a young bull,"

   Source in Al-Ghunya, Vol. 1 →

al-Akhlāq wa'l-Siyar — Character and Conduct

Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba · Timeless Classics

1. "and then the sun and the wind dry up what is left of them. Such is the wealth that is not spent in a good cause. The man of intellect is not gladdened by a quality in which a beast of prey, or a head of cattle, or an inanimate thing surpasses him; he is gladdened only by his advancement in the virtue by which God Most High set him apart from the beasts of prey, the cattle, and inanimate things — namely the discernment in which he shares with the angels."

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2. "and that the sound of reed-pipes is sweeter and more delightful than his voice. So what boast is there, and what joy, in that wherein these cattle surpass him? But whoever's discernment is strong, and whose knowledge is wide, and whose work is good — let him be gladdened by that, for none surpasses him in these respects but the angels and the best of mankind."

   Source in Character and Conduct →

Volume 2 — From the Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "willed. Then a group of traders from Kalb passed by, and I said to them, Take me to the land of the Arabs, and I will give you my cattle and my spoils. They agreed, so I gave them my cattle, and they took me with them. When they reached the valley of Al-Qura,"

   Source in Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia →

2. "He will break the cross, kill the pig, abolish the jizya, and there will be no religion left except Islam. He will destroy the false messiah, al-Masih ad-Dajjal, and peace will prevail on earth until the camels graze with lions and leopards with cattle and wolves with sheep."

   Source in Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia →

Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "Among people, there are those whose hearts have no understanding beyond that of instinctual animals. They are likened to cattle, standing at the very first step of humanity. اللّٰه, the Exalted, likens them to cattle and considers them even more astray."

   Source in Volume Two →

Al-Kabā'ir — The Major Sins

Imam al-Dhahabī · Timeless Classics

1. "either to paradise or to hell it was said O Messenger of Allah what about cattle and sheep he said and no owner of cattle or sheep who does not pay their due except that on the day of resurrection they will be laid in a vast"

   Source in The Major Sins →

Volume Two: From India to the Lands of the West

Ibn Battuta · Rihla — The Travels of Ibn Battuta

1. "my companions each day. I left my men to collect the grain sent to Aziz, load it on 30,000 villagers' cattle, and distribute it to the villages under his supervision. The people of India use only cattle"

   Source in Volume Two →

Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

Ibn Kathir · Timeless Classics

1. "Do what you have to do. And while they were standing at the gate taking counsel, al-Aswad came out upon them, having gathered a hundred head of cattle and camels. He stood and drew a line, and the beasts were set behind it while he stood before it, and he slaughtered them, neither penned nor hobbled, yet not one of them crossed the line; they wheeled about until their souls departed."

   Source in Abu Bakr al-Siddiq →

2. "He left none of the enemy alive to tell of it, and he drove off the women and children, the cattle and the wealth. And the Muslims lost nothing in the sea save a nosebag belonging to the horse of one of the Muslims, and even so al-Ala went back and brought it to him. Then he divided the spoils among the Muslims:"

   Source in Abu Bakr al-Siddiq →

The Destroyed Nations & Yunus

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "Al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i also related it through the hadith of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'd. The Excellence of Yunus, Peace Be Upon Him God the Exalted said: "And indeed Yunus was among the messengers." And He, exalted be He, mentioned him among the noble prophets in the chapters of al-Nisa and al-An'am; upon them be the finest blessings and peace from God."

   Source in The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed →

2. "and humbled themselves before Him, And the men wept, and the women, and the sons and daughters and mothers. The cattle and beasts and flocks cried out: the camels groaned along with their young, the cows lowed with their calves, the sheep bleated with their lambs. It was a mighty, terrifying hour."

   Source in The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "And its Creator, glory be to Him, said: The likeness of the life of this world is only as water We send down from the sky, and there mingles with it the growth of the earth, from which men and cattle eat, until, when the earth has taken on its finery and is adorned, and its people think they have power over it, Our command comes upon it by night or by day,"

   Source in al-Fawāʾid →

2. "These are the most knowing of creatures. The second group: ...those blind to both ways, resembling cattle; and such people are nearer to the way of the criminals and more likely to travel it. The third group: those who devote their attention to knowing the way of the believers alone, and not its opposite."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid →

Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "They are likened to cattle, unable to distinguish between good and bad, truth and falsehood. In the Hereafter, they will admit that they were not among those who listened and reasoned, acknowledging that if they had used their faculties, they would have recognized the truth of the messengers' message."

   Source in Volume One →

Book 19: The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "People have indulged in following desires and pleasures like cattle, and a truthful believer, not deterred by critics in his devotion to Allah, is rare upon the earth. Whoever strives to rectify this period, to mend this breach, by either fulfilling its duties or executing its responsibilities,"

   Source in The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil → Play in preview

Ayyuhā al-Walad — O Beloved Son

Imam al-Ghazali · Timeless Classics

1. "«The Throne of the Most Merciful shook at the death of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh». And God forbid, if you are among the beasts; as Allah, the Exalted, said: ﴿They are like cattle, rather they are more astray﴾.. do not feel secure from your transition from the corner of the house to the abyss of the Fire."

   Source in Ayyuhā al-Walad →

Book 5: The Mysteries of Zakat

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "and by Ibn Majah from the hadith of Aisha with a weak chain. The second type is the zakat on agricultural produce. The third type is the zakat on currency. As for cattle, there is no zakat until they reach thirty heads, at which point a "tabi’" [a male calf in its second year] is required."

   Source in The Mysteries of Zakat →

Book 35: The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "These are those described as "like cattle, but they are even more astray," because animals have no power to aspire to the rank of angels. However, humans have that capacity, and those who can achieve perfection are more blameworthy and more rightly deemed astray if they do not pursue it."

   Source in The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God →

Book 8: The Mysteries of Qur'an Recitation

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, left behind twenty thousand Companions, but only six memorized the entire Quran, with some disagreement on two of them. Most memorized a chapter or two, and those who memorized Al-Baqarah and Al-An'am were considered their scholars."

   Source in Qur'an Recitation →

Book 14: The Lawful and the Unlawful

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "Furthermore, they consumed wheat and barley bread without washing it, even though cattle and animals trampled it, urinating and defecating upon it. They regularly mounted beasts that sweated, yet did not wash their backs, despite the animals often rolling in impurities."

   Source in The Lawful and the Unlawful →

Volume 1 — From Creation to Mūsā

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "Do they not see that We drive water to barren land, And grow therewith crops, providing food for their cattle and themselves? Will they not then see? From Surah As-Sajdah. The Nile then passes by Egypt a little, dividing into two branches at a village called Shatnuf."

   Source in From Creation to Mūsā →

The Story of Nuh

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "directly. All messengers sent as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers. And ever is Allah exalted in might and wise. And He said in Surat Al-An'am, And that was our conclusive argument which"

   Source in The Story of Nuh →

The Story of Musa

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "how he made the earth a bed and the sky a preserved canopy, and how he subdued the clouds and rain for the provision of his servants and their cattle and livestock, as he said, Eat and pasture your livestock, indeed, in that are signs for those of understanding,"

   Source in The Story of Musa →