1تَبَّت يَدا أَبي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّGeorge SaleThe hands of Abu Laheb shall perish1, and he shall perish2.The hands of Abu Laheb shall perish;] Abu Laheb was the surname of Abd’al Uzza, one of the sons of Abd’almotalleb, and uncle to Mohammed. He was a most bitter enemy to his nephew, and opposed the establishment of his new religion to the utmost of his power. When that prophet, in obedience to the command he had recieved to admonish his near relations (See the Prelim. Disc. §. II. p. 43.), had called them all together, and told them that he was a warner sent unto them before a grievous chaslifement, Abu Laheb cried out, Mayst thou perish! hast thou called us togehter for this? and took up a stone to cast at him. Whereupon this passage was revealed (Al Beidawi, Jallal. &c.). By the hands of Abu Laheb some commentators, by a synecdoche, understand his person; others, by a metonymy, his affairs in general, they being tranfacted with those members; or his hopes in this world, and the next.And he shall perish;] He died of grief and vexation at the defeat his friends had received at Bedr, surviving that misfortune but 7 days (Abulf. vit. Mob. p. 57). They add, that his corpse was left aboveground three days, till it stank, and then some negro’s were hired to bury him (Al Beidawi).