Surah Al Waqiah Tafseer

(they will be) among Sidr Makhdud.

Ibn Abbas, Ikrimah, Mujahid, Ibn Al-Ahwas, Qasamah bin Zuhayr, As-Safr bin Nusayr, Al-Hasan, Qatadah, Abdullah bin Kathir, As-Suddi, Abu Hazrah and several others said,

"The kind without thorns."

And from Ibn Abbas:

"It is the one that is laden with fruits."

This is also reported from Ikrimah and Mujahid.

Similar was also said by Qatadah as we mentioned.

So it is the one with a full load of fruits without thorns. So it appears that both meanings apply here.

The lote tree, of this life is thorny and carries few fruits. In the Hereafter, it is the opposite; it does not have thorns and carries plenty of fruit, the weight of which strains its trunk.

Utbah bin Abd As-Sulami said, "I was sitting with Allah's Messenger , when a Bedouin came and said,

`O Messenger of Allah! Have you heard about the tree that has more thorns than any other being in Paradise' Meaning the Talh tree.

So Allah's Messenger said:

إِنَّ اللهَ يَجْعَلُ مَكَانَ كُلِّ شَوْكَةٍ مِنْهَا ثَمَرَةً مِثْلَ خُصْوَةِ التَّيْسِ الْمَلْبُودِ فِيهَا سَبْعُونَ لَوْنًا مِنَ الطَّعَامِ لَا يُشْبِهُ لَوْنٌ اخَر

For each spot that there was a thorn on it, Allah instead put fruit, similar to a castrated tight skinned ram, a food having seventy colors, each different than the other.

Allah's said,

وَطَلْحٍ مَّنضُودٍ