Al-Mursalat

Surah 77 of the Quran

المرسلات‎ Al-Mursalāt The Emissaries
Arabic text English text
Classification	Meccan
Other names	Winds Sent Forth, The Loosed Ones, Those Sent Forth
No. of verses	50
No. of Rukus	2
No. of words	181
No. of letters	841

Sūrat al-Mursalāt (Arabic: سورة المرسلات, “The Emissaries”, “Winds Sent Forth”) is the 77th chapter (sura) of the Quran with 50 verses.

Hadith

Hadith (حديث) is literally “speech”; recorded saying or tradition of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad validated by isnad; with sira these comprise the sunnah and reveal shariah and tafsir is the Arabic word for exegesis of the Qur'an. The first and foremost exegesis of Quran is found in hadith of Muhammad thus making it important to consider the hadith related to a particular surah when studying it.

• Abdullah ibn Masud was a ṣaḥābī or companion of Muhammad, and an early convert to Islam, narrates that this surah was revealed while he as in a cave at Mina, Saudi Arabia with Muhammad and records and incident of a snaking leaping on them while both remained safe.
• Ibn ‘Abbas narrated this Surat was the last thing that Umm Al-Fadl (his mother) she heard from Muhammad. He recited it in the Maghrib prayer. Both Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim recorded this report in the Two Sahihs by way of Malik.
• Sahabah report that Muhammad used to recite surahs An-Naba (78) and al-Mursalat (77) in one rak'ah, and surahs Ad-Dukhan (44) and At-Takwir (81) in one rak'ah.