The Second Aspect:
3732 - Al-Hasan b. Ahmad narrated to us, Musa b. Muhkam narrated to us, Abu Bakr al-Hanafi narrated to us, 'Abbad b. Mansur narrated to me, he said: I asked al-Hasan about His saying: "And indeed, there is among them a party who distort their tongues with the Book." He said: They are all the People of the Book.
His saying, the Exalted: "to make you think it is from the Book, while it is not from the Book"
[The First Aspect]
3733 - Muhammad b. Sa'd al-'Awfi informed me, in what he wrote to me, my father narrated to me, my uncle al-Husayn narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather, from Ibn 'Abbas, concerning His saying: "distort their tongues with the Book to make you think it is from the Book," and they are the Jews; they used to add to the Book of Allah that which Allah had not revealed.
The Second Aspect:
3734 - Hajjaj b. Hamzah narrated to us, Shababah narrated to us, Warqa' narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid, concerning His saying: "And indeed, there is among them a party who distort their tongues with the Book," he said: They corrupt it. Abu Muhammad said: Something similar to this has been narrated from al-Sha'bi, al-Hasan, Qatadah, and al-Rabi' b. Anas.
His saying, the Exalted: "And they say, 'It is from Allah,' but it is not from Allah."
3735 - Abu 'Abd Allah al-Tihrani informed me, in what he wrote to me, Isma'il b. 'Abd al-Karim narrated to us, 'Abd al-Samad b. Ma'qil narrated to me, that he heard Wahb saying: "The Torah and the Gospel, as Allah revealed them, not a single letter was changed from them, but they lead people astray through corruption and interpretation, and books they used to write with their own hands and say, 'It is from Allah,' while it is not from Allah. As for the Books of Allah, they are preserved and are not altered."
3736 - My father narrated to us, Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Rahman narrated to us, 'Abd Allah b. Abi Ja'far narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabi' b. Anas, concerning: "And they say, 'It is from Allah,' but it is not from Allah," he said: They are the enemies of Allah, the Jews; they corrupted the Book of Allah, innovated therein, and claimed that it was from Allah."
(1). Al-Tafsir, 1/129. (2). Ibn Kathir said: If Wahb meant what they have in their possession of that, then there is no doubt that it has undergone alteration, corruption, addition, and omission. As for the interpretation of that which is observed in Arabic, it contains significant errors, many additions, deletions, and grave delusions—this is a matter of interpreting the interpreted and expressed, and the understanding of many of them, rather the majority, indeed all of them, is corrupt. But if he meant the Books of Allah as they are with Him, then they are as He said: preserved, and nothing has entered them (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 2/54).
وَالْوَجْهُ الثَّانِي:
٣٧٣٢ - حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ، ثنا مُوسَى بْنُ مُحْكَمٍ، ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي عَبَّادُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ الْحَسَنَ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ: وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقًا يَلْوُونَ أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِالْكِتَابِ قَالَ: هُمْ أَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ كُلُّهُمْ.
قَولُهُ تَعَالَى: يَلْوُونَ أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِالْكِتَابِ لِتَحْسَبُوهُ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَمَا هو من الكتاب
[الوجه الأول]
٣٧٣٣ - أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الْعَوْفِيُّ فِيمَا كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، حَدَّثَنِي عَمِّي الْحُسَيْنُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَوْلُهُ: يلوون ألسنتهم بالكتاب لتحسبوه مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَهُمُ الْيَهُودُ كَانُوا يَزِيدُونَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنْزِلِ اللَّهُ.
وَالْوَجْهُ الثَّانِي:
٣٧٣٤ - حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ حَمْزَةَ، ثنا شَبَابَةُ، ثنا وَرْقَاءُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ «١»
قَوْلُهُ: وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقًا يَلْوُونَ أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِالْكِتَابِ قَالَ: يُحَرِّفُونَهُ. قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ وَرُوِيَ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ وَالْحَسَنِ، وَقَتَادَةَ وَالرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ نَحْوُ ذَلِكَ.
قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ الله وما هو من عِنْدَ اللَّهِ
٣٧٣٥ - أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الطِّهْرَانِيُّ فِيمَا كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ، ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ بْنِ مَعْقِلٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ وَهْبًا يَقُولُ: إِنَّ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنْجِيلَ كَمَا أَنْزَلَهُمَا اللَّهُ لَمْ يُغَيَّرْ مِنْهُمَا حَرْفٌ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ يُضِلُّونَ بِالتَّحْرِيفِ وَالتَّأْوِيلِ، وَكُتُبٌ كَانُوا يَكْتُبُونَهَا مِنْ عِنْدِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ، وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ فَأَمَّا كُتُبُ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مَحْفُوظَةٌ لَا تُحَوَّلُ «٢»
٣٧٣٦ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، ثنا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ:
هُمْ أَعْدَاءُ اللَّهِ الْيَهُودُ حَرَّفُوا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ، وَابْتَدَعُوا فِيهِ، وَزَعَمُوا أَنَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِ الله.
(١) . التفسير ١/ ١٢٩.(٢) . قال ابن كثير: فإن عني وهب ما بأيديهم من ذلك، فلا شك إنه قد دخلها التبديل والتحريف والزيادة والنقص وأما تعريف ذلك المشاهد بالعربية ففيه خطأ كبير، وزيادات كثيرة ونقصان ووهم فاحش- وهو من باب تفسير المعبر المعرب وفهم كثير منهم بل أكثرهم، بل جميعهم فاسد. وأما إن عنى كتب الله هي كتبه عنده، فتلك كما قال: محفوظة لم يدخلها شيء ٢/ ٥٤.
