A Table From Heaven, and Jesus's Own Disavowal

Hizb 13 carries Al-Maida's closing material, opening with praise for Christians as nearest in affection to the believers among all the People of the Book, before turning to the prohibition of wine and games of chance and to the expiation owed for broken oaths. It then tells the episode that gives the sura its name: the disciples asking Jesus to call down a table of food from heaven as a sign, granted with a warning that continued disbelief afterward would bring a severe punishment.

The sura closes with a dialogue set on the Day of Judgment in which God asks Jesus whether he told people to take him and his mother as deities beside God, and Jesus answers that he said only what he was commanded to say, that God alone should be worshipped, and that he does not know what was in people's hearts after he was taken from among them, a passage central to how the Quran presents Jesus's own relationship to later Christian doctrine about him.

The hizb then opens Al-Anam, the Cattle, with praise to the creator of the heavens and the earth and a warning to those who equate other things with their maker, alongside reassurance to the Prophet that persistent rejection by his own people does not indicate any fault in the message itself.