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فَلَمَّا أَسْلَمَا وَتَلَّهُ لِلْجَبِينِ
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-As-Sâffât ( الصافات )

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

And when they had both submitted, [when] they had submitted to and were prepared to comply with God’s command, exalted be He, and he had laid him down on his forehead, [when] he had pushed him down to the ground thereon — every human being has two brows (jabīn) between which is the forehead (jabha); this was at Minā. Abraham passed the knife across his [son’s] throat but it did not do anything, by some impediment of the Divine Power,


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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