and abb is for your livestock.” This is the unanimous view of the linguists, who explain abb as pasture. Al-Jawharī and others said, “Abb is pasture.” Al-Zajjāj said, “It is all the herbage on which livestock feed.” According to al-Dahhāk’s view, it could be said to include all vegetation other than fruit. Some say it is whatever the earth produces that people and livestock eat. The former is the generally recognized view among the majority of the early generations and the linguists.

If it is said that Abū al-Faraj mentioned two views concerning it: the first, that it is what livestock graze on, as stated by Ibn ‘Abbās, ‘Ikrimah, and the linguists; and the second, that it is fresh fruit, as al-Wālibī related from Ibn ‘Abbās