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bayhaqi:20929 – Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān> Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. Ṣafwān > ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Abū al-Dunyā > Ziyād b. Ayyūb > Shabābah b. Sawwār > Fuḍayl b. Marzūq > Maysarah b. Ḥabīb > Mar ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib > Qawm Yalʿabūn Bi-al-Shhiṭranj

[Machine] "What are these statues that you are devoted to?" [Surah Al-Anbiya' 52]  

البيهقي:٢٠٩٢٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ بِبَغْدَادَ أنبأ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ صَفْوَانَ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي الدُّنْيَا ثنا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ ثنا شَبَابَةُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ مَرْزُوقٍ عَنْ مَيْسَرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ قَالَ مَرَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَلْعَبُونَ بِالشِّطْرَنْجِ فَقَالَ

{مَا هَذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ} [الأنبياء 52]؟  

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quran:21:52 –

When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"  

when he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images, ˹these˺ idols, to which you ˹constantly˺ cleave?’, that is, which you are constantly worshipping.
القرآن:٢١:٥٢ –

إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَا هَٰذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ  

{إذ قال لأبيه وقومه ما هذه التماثيل} الأصنام {التي أنتم لها عاكفون} أي على عبادتها مقيمون.
bayhaqi:20930 – Abū al-Ḥusayn > al-Ḥusayn > ʿAbdullāh > ʿAlī b. al-Jaʿd > Abū Muʿāwiyah > Saʿd b. Ṭarīf > al-Aṣbagh b. Nubātah > ʿAlī > Mar > Qawm Yalʿabūn al-Shiṭranj

[Machine] "What are these statues that you are devoted to?" [Quran 21:52]. It is better for him to touch a live coal until it turns cold than to touch them.  

البيهقي:٢٠٩٣٠ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ ثنا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ ثنا سَعْدُ بْنُ طَرِيفٍ عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ أَنَّهُ مَرَّ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَلْعَبُونَ الشِّطْرَنْجَ فَقَالَ

{مَا هَذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ} [الأنبياء 52]؟ لَأَنْ يَمَسَّ جَمْرًا حَتَّى يُطْفَأَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمَسَّهَا