﴿ وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًۭا وَنَسِىَ خَلْقَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ مَن يُحْىِ ٱلْعِظَٰمَ وَهِىَ رَمِيمٌۭ ﴾

“And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?””

(Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?) [36:78]. The commentators of the Qur�an said: �Ubayy ibn Khalaf went to the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, with a decayed bone and said to him: �O Muhammad, do you think that Allah will bring back to life this decayed bone?� He said: �Yes, He will, and He will also resurrect you and cast you in hellfire�. Allah, exalted is He, then revealed these verses (And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?...) [36:78-79]�. Sa�id ibn Muhammad ibn Ja�far informed us> Abu �Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Faqih> Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Junayd> Ziyad ibn Ayyub> Hushaym> Husayn> Abu Malik who said: �Ubayy ibn Khalaf al-Jumahi went to the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, with a decayed bone which he crushed in his hand and then said: �O Muhammad, will Allah resurrect this now that it has become dust?� He said: �Yes, Allah will resurrect it; he will also make you die, bring you back to life and then cast you in the fire of Gehenna�. This verse was then revealed�.