The Second Aspect:
3710 - My father narrated to us, 'Abd al-Rahman b. al-Dahhak narrated to us, Suwayd—meaning Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz—narrated to us, 'Abd al-Malik b. al-Nu'man narrated to us, he said: I heard Numayr b. Aws saying regarding "as long as you are standing over him": It means the evidence.
His saying, the Exalted: "That is because they said, 'There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned.'"
[The First Aspect]
3711 - Ahmad b. Sinan narrated to us, 'Abd al-Rahman b. Mahdi narrated to us, Sufyan al-Thawri narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Sa'sa'ah b. Yazid, he said: I asked Ibn 'Abbas, saying: We travel in the land of the dhimmah [protected] people and we take from them [goods] without payment. He said: What do you say? We say: There is no harm in that. He said: You are saying as the People of the Scripture said: "There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned," and they speak falsehood about Allah while they know.
3712 - Muhammad b. Yahya narrated to us, Abu al-Rabi' al-Zahrani informed us, Ya'qub narrated to us, Ja'far informed us, from Sa'id b. Jubayr, he said: When the People of the Scripture said: "That is because they said, 'There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned,'" the Prophet of Allah said: The enemies of Allah have lied. Everything that was in the Jahiliyyah [Age of Ignorance] is beneath these two feet of mine, except for the trust (amanah), for it must be rendered to the righteous and the wicked alike.
3713 - Ahmad b. 'Uthman b. Hakim al-Awdi narrated to us, Ahmad b. al-Mufaddal narrated to us, Asbat narrated to us, from al-Suddi regarding "That is because they said, 'There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned,'" he said: The believer says to him, "Why do you not fulfill your trust?" and he replies, "There is no sin upon us regarding the wealth of the Arabs; Allah has made it lawful for us."
Abu Muhammad said: It was narrated from al-Rabi' b. Anas that he said: The Jews said: There is no blame upon us regarding what we obtain of the Arabs' wealth.
3714 - 'Ali b. al-Mubarak reported to me in what he wrote to me, Zayd b. al-Mubarak narrated to us, Ibn Thawr narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj regarding His saying: "There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned," he said: Some people among the Muslims traded with them in the Jahiliyyah, and they [the Jews] said: There is no trust upon us, and there is no settlement [of debt] for you upon us because you abandoned your religion that you were following, and they claimed that in their Book. He said: "And they speak falsehood about Allah while they know."
