Reading guide: the English passages below are plain-language summaries of narrations reported from the Prophet ﷺ, written for this session. They are not direct quotations and not translations. The Arabic is quoted from the Sunnah.com page named beneath each one, and the full source entry with its chain is one click away. Connections to the verses are editorial.
Summary: When a person reads a verse of prostration and prostrates, Shaytan goes off by himself and weeps, and says: the son of Adam was told to prostrate and he did, so Paradise is his; I was told to prostrate and I refused, so the Fire is mine.
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: This narration recalls the contrast between responding obediently and Iblis's refusal. Note its scope when you teach it: it is about prostrating after reading a verse of prostration, not about prostration in general. See the tafsir unit →
Summary: No one with an atom's weight of kibr in his heart enters Paradise. A man asked about liking good clothes and good shoes. The answer: Allah is beautiful and loves beauty — kibr is rejecting the truth and looking down on people.
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: The definition is the passage. Iblis rejected a truth he had just heard and looked down on a creature he had just met. See the tafsir unit →
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: It confirms the material Iblis appealed to in 7:12 — and shows that naming the material settles nothing about rank. See the tafsir unit →
Optional reading
He sits on every road
Arabic excerpt — the full narration continues with the promise summarized below.
Summary of the full narration: Shaytan sat for the son of Adam on his roads. He sat on the road to Islam and said: will you accept Islam and leave your religion and your fathers' religion? The man disobeyed him and accepted Islam. He sat on the road to emigration and said: will you leave your land and your sky? The man disobeyed him and emigrated. He sat on the road of jihad and said: you will spend yourself and your wealth, you will be killed, your wife will remarry and your wealth divided. The man disobeyed him and fought. Whoever does that has a right upon Allah that He admit him to Paradise.
Narrated by Sabrah b. Abi Fakih.
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3134 · Book 25, Hadith 50 · Grade: Hasan (Darussalam, as listed on Sunnah.com) · Full narration on Sunnah.com ↗
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: This is the direct commentary on la-aq'udanna lahum siratak al-mustaqim; Ibn Kathir cites it at exactly this ayah. See the tafsir unit →
Summary: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not leave these supplications morning or evening: O Allah, I ask You for well-being in this world and the next. O Allah, I ask You for pardon and well-being in my religion, my worldly affairs, my family and my property. O Allah, cover my faults and calm my fears. O Allah, guard me from in front of me and behind me, on my right and on my left and from above me — and I seek refuge in Your greatness from being taken suddenly from below me.
Narrated by 'Abdullah b. 'Umar.
Sunan Abi Dawud 5074 · Book 43, Hadith 302 · Grade: Sahih (Al-Albani, as listed on Sunnah.com) · Full narration on Sunnah.com ↗
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: Iblis named four directions in 7:17; this supplication asks for protection from six. It is the natural close for the du'a segment. See the tafsir unit →
For the facilitator: Use the linked source text when quoting a narration verbatim.
