[a] The emulous desire of multiplying riches and children employeth you until ye visit the graves;] i.e. Until ye die. According to the exposition of some commentators, the words should be rendered thus: The contending or vying in numbers wholly employeth you, so that ye visit even the graves, to number the dead: to explain which, they relate that there was a great dispute and contention between the descendants of Abd Menâf and the descendants of Sahm, which of the two families were the more numerous; and it being found, on calculation, that the children of Abd Menâf exceeded those of Sahm, the Sahmites said that their numbers had been much diminished by wars in the time of ignorance, and insisted that the dead, as well as the living, should be taken into the account; and by this way of reckoning they were found to be more than the descendants of Abd Menâf. ^[1]

[1] Al Zamakh. Al Beidawi, Jallal.