Ibn Umm Maktum came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was speaking with Ubayy bin Khalaf, and the Prophet turned away from him. So Allah revealed, "He frowned and turned away" [Abasa 80:1]. The narrator said, Because of this the Prophet ﷺ used to honor him.Qatada said, Anas bin Malik informed me, "I saw him on the day of Qadisiyyah wearing a coat of mail and carrying a black banner," meaning Ibn Umm Maktum.
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جاء ابن أم مكتوم إلى النبي ﷺ وهو يكلم أبي بن خلف، فأعرض عنه، فأنزل الله: {عبس وتول} قال: فكان النبي ﷺ لذلك يكرمه. قال قتادة: وأخبرني أنس بن مالك قال: رأيته يوم القادسية، وعليه درع، ومعه راية سوداء، يعني ابن أم مكتوم.
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Abu Yaala narrated it (3123) from Muhammad bin Mahdi, who said, Abdul-Razzaq narrated to us, Mamar informed us, from Qatada, from Anas bin Malik, and he related it. Ibn Kathir also related it in this manner in his tafsir, but the printed edition of Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq (3/392) does not mention Anas bin Malik, so perhaps it was dropped from it, since everyone who mentioned this hadith made it a continuous chain through Anas.Ubayy bin Khalaf was one of the disbelievers of Makkah, and he was the one who used to say, whenever the Prophet ﷺ met him, "Muhammad, I will not survive if you survive." He was wounded by the hand of the Prophet ﷺ on the day of Uhud and died in Makkah.As for what was reported from Ibn Abbas concerning His saying, "He frowned and turned away, because there came to him the blind man" [Abasa 80:1–2], he said, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was conversing privately with Utba bin Rabia, Abu Jahl bin Hisham, and Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib, striving hard with them and making great effort to get them to believe, a blind man came to him named Abdullah bin Umm Maktum, walking along while they were conversing. Abdullah began asking the Prophet ﷺ to recite a verse of the Quran to him, saying, "Messenger of Allah, teach me from what Allah has taught you." But the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned away from him, frowned in his face and turned away, disliking his interruption, and gave his attention to the others. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had finished and set out to return to his family, Allah withheld part of his sight, then he nodded his head, then Allah revealed, "He frowned and turned away, because there came to him the blind man. But what would make you know that perhaps he might be purified, or be reminded and the reminder would benefit him?" [Abasa 80:1–4]. When this was revealed concerning him, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ honored him and spoke with him, saying to him, "What do you need? Do you want anything?" And whenever he left his presence, he would say to him, "Do you have any need of anything?" This was because Allah had revealed, "But as for he who thought himself self-sufficient, to him you gave attention. But what is it to you if he will not be purified?" [Abasa 80:5–7]. But it is daif.Ibn Jareer narrated it in his tafsir (24/103) from Muhammad bin Saad, who said, my father narrated to me, who said, my uncle narrated to me, who said, my father narrated to me, from his father, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. Its chain of transmission is a continuous chain of weak narrators.Ibn Kathir said in his tafsir, "It contains strangeness and objectionableness, and its chain of transmission has been criticized."I say, perhaps what he means by the strangeness and objectionableness is the mention of Utba bin Rabia, Abu Jahl bin Hisham, and Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib, while the correct view, as mentioned before, is that it was Ubayy bin Khalaf.