Ayat 12
اِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِ الْمَوْتٰى وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوْا وَاٰثَارَهُمْۗ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ اَحْصَيْنٰهُ فِيْٓ اِمَامٍ مُّبِيْنٍ ࣖ ١٢
English Sahih Internasional
12. Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and what they left behind, and all things We have enumerated in a clear register
Asbab Al-Nuzul
(Lo! We it is Who bring the dead to life. We record that which they send before them, and their footprints…) [36:12]. Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri said: “The Banu Salamah were settled at one extremity of Medina and wanted to move closer to the mosque [of the Prophet]. This verse was then revealed (Lo! We it is Who bring the dead to life. We record that which they send before them, and their footprints…), and so the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, said to them: ‘Your footprints are recorded, why then do you want to move?’ ” The prophetic descendent Isma‘il ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan Tabari informed us> his grandfather> ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sharqi> ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Bishr> ‘Abd al-Razzaq> alThawri> Sa‘id ibn Turayf> Abu Nadrah> Abu Sa‘id who said: “The Banu Salamah complained to the Messenger, Allah bless him and give him peace, about the remoteness of their homes from the mosque. Allah, exalted is He, then revealed (We record that which they send before them…) upon which the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, said: ‘Do not move from your homes. Your footprints are recorded for you in your favour’ ”.
Ayat 78
وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَّنَسِيَ خَلْقَهٗۗ قَالَ مَنْ يُّحْيِ الْعِظَامَ وَهِيَ رَمِيْمٌ ٧٨
English Sahih Internasional
78. And he presents for Us an example and forgets his [own] creation. He says, "Who will give life to bones while they are disintegrated?"
Asbab Al-Nuzul
(Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?) [36:78]. The commentators of the Qur’an said: “Ubayy ibn Khalaf went to the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, with a decayed bone and said to him: ‘O Muhammad, do you think that Allah will bring back to life this decayed bone?’ He said: ‘Yes, He will, and He will also resurrect you and cast you in hellfire’. Allah, exalted is He, then revealed these verses (And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?...) [36:78-79]”. Sa‘id ibn Muhammad ibn Ja‘far informed us> Abu ‘Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Faqih> Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Junayd> Ziyad ibn Ayyub> Hushaym> Husayn> Abu Malik who said: “Ubayy ibn Khalaf al-Jumahi went to the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, with a decayed bone which he crushed in his hand and then said: ‘O Muhammad, will Allah resurrect this now that it has become dust?’ He said: ‘Yes, Allah will resurrect it; he will also make you die, bring you back to life and then cast you in the fire of Gehenna’. This verse was then revealed”.