375- Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Bāhilī narrated to us, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, saying: ʿĪsā ibn Maymūn narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Najīḥ narrated to us, from Mujāhid, regarding the statement of Allah: {in their transgression, wandering blindly}, he said: Hesitating.
376- And al-Muthannā narrated to me, saying: Abū Ḥudhayfa narrated to us, saying: Shibl narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, the like of it.
377- Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us, from Sufyān, from a man, from Mujāhid, the like of it.
378- al-Muthannā narrated to me, saying: Suwayd ibn Naṣr narrated to us, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Ibn Jurayj as a recitation, from Mujāhid, the like of it.
379- I was narrated from ʿAmmār, who said: Ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ: "Wandering blindly," he said: Hesitating. (1)
The commentary on the interpretation of the statement of [Allah], exalted be His praise: ﴿Those are they who have purchased error at the price of guidance﴾
Abū Jaʿfar said: If a questioner says: How did these people purchase error at the price of guidance, when they were merely hypocrites whose hypocrisy was not preceded by faith (īmān), such that it could be said of them: They sold their guidance upon which they had been for their error, until they substituted it for it? While you know that the understood meaning of purchasing is exchanging a thing by giving something in its place as compensation for it, and the hypocrites whom Allah described with this attribute were never upon guidance such that they would leave it and take disbelief and hypocrisy in exchange for it?
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