is the one cut off.

And it was revealed concerning him: "Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the Book, they believe in al-Jibt (sorcery/idolatry) and al-Taghut (idols/false deities)..." up to the end of the verse.

5441 - Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Muqri' narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, from 'Amr, from 'Ikrimah who said: Huyayy ibn Akhtab and Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf came to the people of Makkah and said to them: "You are the people of the Book and the people of knowledge, so inform us about ourselves and about Muhammad." They asked: "What are you, and what is Muhammad?" They replied: "We join kinship ties, we slaughter the fatty-humped camels, we mix water with milk, we liberate the captives, and we provide water for the pilgrims; while Muhammad is a 'sunbur' (an isolated person) who has cut our kinship ties, and he is followed by the thieves of the pilgrims from the tribe of Ghaffar. So are we better, or is he?" They said: "You are better and more rightly guided in path." So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed: "Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the Book, they believe in al-Jibt and al-Taghut and say to those who disbelieve: 'These are more rightly guided in path than those who believe.'"

[His saying, the Exalted: They believe in al-Jibt]

[The First Aspect]

5442 - Ahmad ibn Mansur ibn Rashid al-Muzuri narrated to us, al-Nadr ibn Shumayl narrated to us, 'Awf narrated to us, from Hayyan, Qatan ibn Qabisah narrated to us, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "Al-'iyafah (divination by birds), al-tarq (divination by lines in the sand), and al-tiyarah (superstitious belief in bad omens) are from the Jibt."

5443 - Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Waki' narrated to us; (and) Ahmad ibn Sinan narrated to us, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Abu Ishaq, from Hassan ibn Fa'id, from 'Umar who said: "Al-Jibt is sorcery." It was also narrated from Abu al-'Aliyah, Mujahid, al-Sha'bi (in one of the narrations), 'Ikrimah, 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah, 'Ata' al-Khurasani, and Sa'id ibn Jubayr something similar to that.

[The Second Aspect]

5444 - It was mentioned from Nu'aym ibn Hammad al-Masri, 'Abd al-Hamid ibn 'Abd al-Rahman (meaning: al-Himmani) narrated to us, from al-Nadr Abu 'Umar, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas who said: "Al-Jibt is the name for the devil in the Abyssinian language."

It was also narrated from 'Ikrimah, Abu Malik, and 'Atiyyah that they said: "The devil."

[The Third Aspect]

5445 - My father narrated to us, Abu Salih narrated to us, Mu'awiyah ibn Salih narrated to me, from 'Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn 'Abbas regarding his saying: "They believe in al-Jibt," he says: "Shirk (polytheism)."