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Al-Hasan said: a little over thirty thousand.
Sa‘id ibn Jubayr said: seventy thousand. (1)
“They believed, so We granted them enjoyment for a time. Ask them, then: are daughters for your Lord, while sons are for them? Or did We create the angels as females while they were witnesses? Indeed, it is from their falsehood that they say, ‘Allah has begotten,’ and they are surely liars. Has He chosen daughters over sons?” (148–153)
(1) Recorded by al-Tabari, 23:104. Al-Suyuti, in Al-Durr al-Manthur, 7:132, attributed it to Ibn Abi Hatim.
وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: بِضْعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفًا.
وَقَالَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ: سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا (١)
﴿فَآمَنُوا فَمَتَّعْنَاهُمْ إِلَى حِينٍ (١٤٨) فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَلِرَبِّكَ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ الْبَنُونَ (١٤٩) أَمْ خَلَقْنَا الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِنَاثًا وَهُمْ شَاهِدُونَ (١٥٠) أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ مِنْ إِفْكِهِمْ لَيَقُولُونَ (١٥١) وَلَدَ اللَّهُ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ (١٥٢) أَصْطَفَى الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينَ (١٥٣) ﴾
(١) أخرجه الطبري: ٢٣ / ١٠٤، وعزاه السيوطي في الدر المنثور: ٧ / ١٣٢ لابن أبي حاتم.