Asbāb is the plural of the Arabic word sabab, which means ' cause ', ' reason ', or ' occasion ', and nuzūl is the verbal noun of the verb root nzl, literally meaning to descend or to send down, and thus ( metaphorically ) to reveal, referring Allah sending down a revelation to his prophets.

Though al-Wāhidī may thus be considered the father of this genre ( a view consistent with his rather self-serving depiction of asbāb al-nuzūl as the key to all exegesis ), al-Suyūtī made significant contributions to it as well, introducing such refinements as limiting reports to only those contemporaneous with the revelation itself ( reports related to events described by the verse were reclassified as akhbār ) and developing a sabab selection criterion different from al-Wāhidī's rather mechanistic one of scanning for a select few " marker " introductory phrases.

The second sabab provides conflicting ethnological data, stating that the practice was instituted by Muhammed in opposition to the pagans ' sacrifices to their idols.

This distinction will be maintained here by the use of the term sabab-material for an occasion of revelation which does not necessarily come from a work of asbāb al-nuzūl, and sabab only for one that does.

Modern scholarship has long posited an origin for the sabab al-nuzūl based largely on its function within exegesis.

An extensive example of this is the sabab attributed to Ibn Ishāq ( al-Wāhidī, Kitāb 22 ) for verses Q. 2: 258 and Q. 2: 260, detailing Ibrahim's encounter with Nimrod.

Though technical terms within Qur ' anic exegesis often have their origins in the book itself ( e. g. naskh ), sabab / asbāb does not: Despite the appearance of the stem sbb over 11 times in the Qur ' an ( Q. 2: 166, Q. 18: 84, Q. 18: 85 Q. 18: 89, Q. 22: 15, Q. 38: 10, Q. 40: 36-37 ), " none of the verses seem the least bit connected to a statement concerning revelatory procedure ".

Contains sabab reports mixed with qisas al-anbiyā ( stories of the prophets ) material.

Consists of sabab and naskh material interspersed, with the former containing very abbreviated isnads where only the first authority is listed.

One thing common to all these theories is the assumption that the sabab is built around the Qur ' ānic verse ( s ) embedded in it.

One function of the sabab report is theological.

Because the sabab does not explain why the verses were revealed, only the story within it, though, this report would qualify as an instance of akhbār according to the sabab identification criteria later established by al-Suyūtī.

A much more ( in -) famous example of a narratological sabab al-nuzūl is the incident of the so-called Satanic Verses.

The first sabab states that the pagan Arabs practiced this ( ur-Islamically sanctioned ) ritual, but that they so adulterated it with idolatry that the first Muslims pressed to abandon it until Q. 2: 158 was revealed.

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