Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31981 — What in the Quran was explained

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A zanim is a person who is base and is attached to a people to whom he does not belong. Then he recited this verse of poetry: 'Zanimun tada'ahu al-rijalu ziyadatan kama zida fi 'ardi al-adimi al-akari'u' (A zanim whom men claim as a mere addition, as shanks are added on to the breadth of a hide).