His saying, exalted and majestic is He:

﴿So when they both submitted and he laid him down upon his forehead﴾ ﴿And We called out to him, 'O Abraham'﴾ ﴿You have certainly fulfilled the vision. Indeed, We reward the doers of good﴾ ﴿Indeed, this is the manifest trial﴾ ﴿And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice﴾ ﴿And We left for him [favorable mention] among later generations﴾ ﴿Peace be upon Abraham﴾ ﴿Thus do We reward the doers of good﴾ ﴿Indeed, he was of Our believing servants﴾

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'And His saying, exalted is He: "Indeed, so" is an indication of what Ibrahim did. It is as if He is saying: 'Indeed, by this type of sincerity and obedience, We reward the doers of good.' And His saying: "Indeed, this" may refer to what is in the story of trial and testing by hardship. It may also refer to the joy in the ransom and the rescue from that hardship in carrying out the slaughter. Thus, the trial may mean the blessing. And for every possibility, a group of the interpreters has indicated. In the hadith, 'Indeed, Allah, exalted is He, revealed to Ishaq that I have granted you, due to your patience with My command, a supplication that I will give you what you have asked for. So ask Me.' He said: 'O Lord, any servant who meets You from the first and the last, not associating anything with You, then admit him to Paradise.' And the pronoun in "We ransomed him" refers back to the slaughter, and "the slaughter" is the name for what is slaughtered. He described it as great because it is certainly accepted. Mujahid said this. Umar ibn Ubaid said: 'The slaughter is the ram, and the great is for the continuity of the Sunnah with it and its being a religion that remains until the end of time.' Al-Hasan ibn al-Fadl said: 'It is great because it is from Allah.' Abu Bakr al-Warraq said: 'Because it was not from a lineage but rather from creation.' It has been narrated from Ibn Abbas and from Sa'id ibn Jubair that its greatness is that it is from the rams of Paradise, which grazed in it for forty autumns. Ibn Abbas said: 'It is the ram that the sons of Adam offered.' And Ibn Abbas and al-Hasan said: 'It was a wild ram that was sent down from Thabir.' The majority said: 'It is a white ram with horns and eyes, found behind him tied to a tree.' It has been narrated that it broke free, so he followed it and threw pebbles at it in the places of the jamarat. Thus, the Sunnah was established. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, said: 'The devil stoned at the jamarat of Aqabah and others, and this has been mentioned before. The people of the Sunnah hold that this story has abrogated the resolve to act, while the Mu'tazila say: 'There can be no abrogation except after the occurrence of the act.' They have split into two groups regarding this verse: One group said: 'The slaughter occurred and was completed afterward.' This is a clear lie. Another group among them said: 'Rather, Ibrahim saw in his dream only the passing of the blade, and he thought it was a slaughter, so he prepared for it. When that which he saw occurred, the abrogation took place.' The judge Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 'Thus, there is no disagreement that Ibrahim passed the blade over the throat of his son, but it did not cut.' And it has been narrated that a copper plate obstructed him with its edge, and Allah knows how it was. Indeed, people have multiplied in the stories of this verse with what is not authentic, so I have summarized it. The interpretation of similar to His saying: "And We left upon him in the last ones: Peace be upon Ibrahim." And His saying, exalted is He: "Thus, We reward the doers of good" means: 'By such an act.' And the rest of the verse is clear.

And among what is surprising in this verse is that 'Ubaid ibn 'Umayr said: It was slaughtered at the standing place, and Al-Tabari reported from a group whose names he did not mention that they said: The matter and the act of slaughtering and the entire story was in Ash-Sham. The majority said: It was slaughtered at Mina. And Ash-Shabi said: I saw the horns of Ibrahim's ram hanging in the Ka'bah.