TibyanTafsir Ibn Kathir
Al-A'raf

Forbidding Aggression in Supplications

It was reported that `Ata' Al-Khurasani narrated from Ibn `Abbas, who said about Allah's statement,

﴿ إِنَّهُ ۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُعۡتَدِينَ ﴾

(He likes not the aggressors) "In the Du`a' and otherwise.'' Abu Mijlaz commented on,

﴿ إِنَّهُ ۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُعۡتَدِينَ ﴾

(He likes not the aggressors), "Such (aggression) as asking to reach the grade of the Prophets.'' Imam Ahmad narrated that Abu Ni`amah said that `Abdullah bin Mughaffal heard his son supplicating, "O Allah! I ask you for the white castle on the right side of Paradise, if I enter it.'' So `Abdullah said, "O my son! Ask Allah for Paradise and seek refuge with Him from the Fire, for I heard the Messenger of Allah saying,

« يَكُونُ قَوْمٌ يَعْتَدُونَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ وَالطَّهُور »

(There will come some people who transgress in supplication and purification)'' Ibn Majah and Abu Dawud recorded this Hadith with a good chain that there is no harm in, and Allah knows best.