Tafsir at-Tabari: Jami' al-Bayan - Dar al-Tarbiyah wa al-Turath Edition

in characteristics and colors (1)—according to what we have explained of speech regarding that in this book of ours (2).

The discourse on the Interpretation of His statement: {and they are given thereof in resemblance}

Abū Jaʿfar said: The pronoun "it" in His statement, "and they are given thereof in resemblance," refers back to the provision, so its Interpretation is: "And they were given that which they were provided with of its fruits in resemblance."

And the people of Interpretation differed regarding the Interpretation of "in resemblance" in that:

Some of them said: Its resemblance is that all of it is choice, with no bad quality in it.

Mention of those who said that:

519- Khallād ibn Aslam narrated to us, He said: Al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl informed us, He said: Abū ʿĀmir informed us, from al-Ḥasan regarding His statement, "in resemblance," He said: All of it choice, with no bad quality in it.

520- Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, He said: Ibn ʿUlayya narrated to us, from Abū Rajāʾ: Al-Ḥasan recited verses from al-Baqara, and came upon this verse: "and they are given thereof in resemblance." He said: Have you not seen the fruits of the world, how you reject some as bad? But this has no bad quality in it.

521- Al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us, He said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, He said: Maʿmar informed us, He said: Al-Ḥasan said regarding "and they are given thereof in resemblance": Some of it resembles another, with nothing bad in it (3).

522- Bishr narrated to us, He said: Yazīd narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: "and they are given thereof

(1) In the printed edition: "in designations and colors," which is an error.
(2) By that he means what preceded, the meaning of His statement: "The words of every speaker are interpreted according to what is commonly known among people regarding its usages, not according to its obscure meanings," and this was mentioned earlier on p. 388.
Furthermore, an obvious error occurred in the printed edition, for there was placed in this location what we moved to its rightful place on p. 394, from the beginning of His statement: "Some Arabic linguists claimed..." up to His statement: "by departing from the view of all the scholars, which indicates his error."
(3) In the printed edition: "there is nothing vile in it."

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