hearts is disease, it has increased them in evil [in addition] to their evil, and they will have died while they are disbelievers} [Surat al-Tawba: 124, 125]. The increase in evil upon their evil that the hypocrites were given is what we have described. And the increase in faith that the believers were given is what we have explained. That is the consensus interpretation.
Mention of some of the people of interpretation who said that:
329- Ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us, he said: Salama narrated to us, from Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, from Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad the freed slave of Zayd b. Thābit, from ʿIkrima, or from Saʿīd b. Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās: "So God increased them in disease," he said: In doubt.
330- Mūsā b. Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr b. Ḥammād informed us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī, in a report he mentioned, from Abū Mālik, and from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās — and from Murra al-Hamdānī, from Ibn Masʿūd, and from some of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him: "So God increased them in disease," he says: So God increased them in suspicion and doubt.
331- Al-Muthannā b. Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Suwayd b. Naṣr narrated to us, he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us by reading, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: "So God increased them in disease," he says: So God increased them in suspicion and doubt regarding the matter of God.
332- Yūnus narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said, regarding the statement of God: "In their hearts is a disease, so God increased them in disease," he said: He increased them in evil, and he recited the statement of God, Mighty and Majestic: {As for those who have believed, it has increased them in faith, and they rejoice. But as for those in whose hearts is disease, it has increased them in evil [in addition] to their evil}, he said: Evil to their evil, and misguidance to their misguidance.
333- And I was told from ʿAmmār b. al-Ḥasan, he said: Ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ: "So God increased them in disease," he said: God increased them in doubt (1).
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