Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 6418 — On His saying (Exalted is He)

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: In the saying of Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, "Establish the prayer at the decline (duluk) of the sun" [al-Isra: 78], the decline of the sun means the turning of the shadow; and in His saying, "And by the night and what it envelops (wa ma wasaq)" [al-Inshiqaq: 17], "wa ma wasaq" means "and what it gathers (wa ma jama'a)".