Asbab an-Nuzul

The event or question a particular verse was revealed in answer to.

Also written · Asbab al-Nuzul · Asbab un Nuzul · Asbabun Nuzul · Sabab an-Nuzul · Shan e Nuzul · Shan-e-Nuzool · occasions of revelation · reasons for revelation · context of revelation · Sabab e Nuzool

The meaning

What Asbab an-Nuzul means in Islam

Knowing the occasion often makes a verse click into place, and it guards against reading a narrow ruling as a sweeping one. These occasions reach us only through narrations, so they are weighed like any report, and a great many verses have no occasion attached at all. The working rule for most scholars is that the lesson lies in the general wording, not in the particular incident.

Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah

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Words that sit beside it

Nuzul al-Qur'anThe sending down of the Qur'an: gradually, over roughly twenty three years, alongside real events.نُزولُ القُرْآن
TafsirExplanation of the Qur'an: what a verse means, why it came, and what it asks of you.التَّفْسير
MakkiA verse or surah revealed before the migration to Madinah, whatever place it came down in.مَكِّيّ
MadaniA verse or surah revealed after the migration to Madinah, whatever place it came down in.مَدَنِيّ