Circumstances of Revelation
Place: Mecca, as the tone of its verses shows; there is no disagreement about this. → Introduction
Verses 54–55: A narration from ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib says that when the Prophet was told So turn away from them, for you will not be blameworthy, "there was not one of us save that he was certain that he would be destroyed", until And admonish, for admonition indeed benefits the faithful was revealed and they were relieved. Al-Mizan notes that the narration is also found in al-Durr al-manthūr. → Narrations
Verse 56 and -119: Imam al-Ṣādiq, asked about I did not create the jinn and the humans except that they may worship Me and but they continue to differ… (), said, "This came down after that." Al-Mizan: he means the latter came after the former and "abrogated" it, but abrogation here is in the sense of clarification and removal of ambiguity, not abrogation in the technical legal sense. → Narrations
A summary prepared from Tafsīr al-Mīzān: where and when the sūrah was revealed, and the occasions reported for its verses, with the ʿAllāmah's view of them. Each point links to the full discussion.