Laylat al-Qadr and the thousand months

Al-Masudi relates that some people, in interpreting the verse on the Night of Power, that it is better than a thousand months, held that it meant the duration of the rule of the Umayyads. They said that their rule, until the allegiance to Abu al-Abbas, was a full thousand months, neither more nor less. ²

This interpretation is attributed by al-Masudi to some people; it is not his own view. No other interpretation is included in the data for this page; it needs a further source.