And the third: that which—

388- Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr narrated to 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, from Ibn Masʿūd, and from some people among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him: {Their parable is as the parable of one who kindled a fire; then, when it illuminated all around him, God took away their light and left them in darkness, unseeing}, he maintained that certain people entered Islam upon the arrival of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, in Medina, but then they committed hypocrisy. Thus, their parable was like that of a man who was in darkness and kindled a fire, which illuminated for him whatever debris or harm was around him so that he saw it and knew what to guard against; while he was in that state, his fire was extinguished, and he turned around not knowing what harm to guard against. Likewise is the hypocrite: he was in the darkness of polytheism, then he embraced Islam, and thereby knew the lawful from the prohibited, and good from evil. While he was in that state, he disbelieved, and so he came to not know the lawful from the prohibited, nor good from evil. As for the light, it was faith in what Muḥammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, brought. And the darkness was their hypocrisy. And another: that which—

389- Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd narrated to me, he said: My father, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad, narrated to me, he said: My paternal uncle narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather, from Ibn ʿAbbās: His statement: {Their parable is as the parable of one who kindled a fire} up to "so they will not return"—God set it as a parable for the hypocrite. And His statement: {God took away their light}, he said: As for the light, it is their faith that they speak with. As for the darkness, it is their error and disbelief that they speak with, and they were a people who were upon guidance, which was then stripped from them, so they rebelled insolently after that.

And others said: according to that which—

390- Bishr ibn Muʿādh narrated to me, he said: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda, regarding His statement: {Their parable is as the parable of one who kindled a fire; then, when it illuminated all around him, God took away their light and left them in darkness, unseeing}, indeed, the hypocrite spoke