that He grants them respite, and leaves them committing injustice in their straying and disbelief, confused, hesitating. As—:

366- I was narrated from al-Minjāb, who said: Bishr narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding His statement: {in their transgression, wandering blindly}, he said: In their disbelief, hesitating.

367- Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, saying: ʿAmr narrated to us, saying: 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, from Ibn Masʿūd, and from some people among the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him): "In their transgression": in their disbelief.

368- Bishr ibn Muʿādh narrated to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: {in their transgression, wandering blindly}, meaning: in their straying, wandering blindly.

369- I was narrated from ʿAmmār ibn al-Ḥasan, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ: "In their transgression": in their straying.

370- And Yūnus narrated to us, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said regarding His statement, "in their transgression," he said: Their transgression is their disbelief and their straying. (1)

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The commentary on the interpretation of His statement: ﴿Wandering blindly (15)﴾

Abū Jaʿfar said: And al-ʿamah itself is straying. It is said from it: "So-and-so was blind to guidance (ʿamiha), he wanders blindly (yaʿmahu), wandering blindly (ʿamahānan and ʿumūhan)," when he strays (2). And from it is the saying of Ruʾba ibn al-ʿAjjāj describing a desolate wasteland: And a vast desert of flat land after flat land ... of a wilderness that they cross into another wilderness ...