Sa'id bin Jubair reported: 'Abd al Rahman bin Abzi commanded me that I should ask Ibn 'Abbas about these two verses: "He who slays a believer intentionally his requital shall be Hell where he would abide for ever" (iv. 92). So, I asked him and he said: Nothing has abrogated it. And as for this verse: "And they who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden, except in the cause of justice" (xxv. 68), he ( Ibn Abbas (RA) ) said: This has been revealed in regard to the polytheists."

Ibn 'Abbas said: This verse was revealed in Makkah: "And they who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden except in the cause of justice" up to the word Muhdana (abased). Thereupon the polytheists said: Islam is of no avail to us for we have made peer with Allah and we killed the soul which Allah had forbidden to do and we committed debauchery, and it was (on this occasion) that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this verse: "Except him who repents and believes and does good deeds" up to the end Ibn 'Abbas says: He who enters the fold of Islam and understands its command and then kills the soul there is no repentance for him.

Sa'id bin Jubair reported: I said to Ibn Abbas (RA) : Will the repentance of that person be accepted who kills a believer intentionally? He said: No. I recited to him this verse of Sura al-Furqan (xix.): "And those who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden except in the cause of justice" to the end of the verse. He said: This is a Makkahn verse which has been abrogated by a verse revealed at Madinah: "He who slays a believer intentionally, for him is the requital of Hell-Fire where he would abide forever," and in the narration of Ibn Hisham (the words are): I recited to him this verse of Sura al-Furqan: "Except one who made repentance."

Ibn Abbas (RA) reported: During the pre-Islamic days women circumambulated the Ka’bah nakedly, and said: Who would provide cloth to cover the one who is circumambulating the Ka’bah so that she would cover her private parts? And then she would say: Today will be exposed the whole or the part and what is exposed I shall not make it lawful. It was in this connection that the verse was revealed: "Adorn yourself at every place of worship" (vii. 31).

Sa'id bin Jubair reported: I said to Ibn 'Abbas about Sura Tauba, whereupon he said: As for Sura Tauba, it is meant to humiliate (the non-believers and the hypocrites). There is constantly revealed in it (the pronoun) minhum (of them) and minhum (of them), i. e. such is the condition of some of them) till they (the Muslims) thought that none would be left unmentioned out of them who would not be blamed (for one fault or the other). I again said: What about Sura Anfal? He said: It pertains to the Battle of Badr. I again asked him about Sura al-Hashr. He said: It was revealed in connection with (the tribe) of Banu Nadir.