قَالَ أَنظِرْنِىٓ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ · قَالَ إِنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُنظَرِينَ
"He said: 'Give me respite until the day they are raised.' · He said: 'You are among those given respite.'"
The primary sense of the root is "to look"; in Form IV (anẓara) it means "to grant someone a span of looking", that is, to give a reprieve. The three occurrences of the root were tabulated at 38/79-80 in Ṣād (Ṣād 38/15, 79, 80). I rely on that treatment.
This is a difference that must be recorded, and it was tabulated as a disagreement in Ṣād. Here I only repeat the datum:
| Sūra | What Iblīs asked | The answer given |
|---|---|---|
| al-Aʿrāf 7/14-15 | Ilā yawmi yubʿathūn | Innaka mina'l-munẓarīn — the limit is not stated |
| al-Ḥijr 15/36-38 | Ilā yawmi yubʿathūn | Innaka mina'l-munẓarīn — ilā yawmi'l-waqti'l-maʿlūm |
| Ṣād 38/79-81 | Ilā yawmi yubʿathūn | Innaka mina'l-munẓarīn — ilā yawmi'l-waqti'l-maʿlūm |
Al-Aʿrāf does not give the note (ilā yawmi'l-waqti'l-maʿlūm) found in the other two sūras. This is a countable absence, and the disagreement "are the two expressions the same" was tabulated in Ṣād; I do not impose a preference.
I record this as an observation: the answer does not say "as much as you asked", it says "you are among those given respite". The request contains a date; the answer contents itself with including him in a group. And al-Aʿrāf, by not naming here the limit the other two sūras set, keeps this indefiniteness of the answer.