ibn Bashshār narrated to us, he said: Muʾammal narrated to us, they both said: Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ẓabyān, from Ibn ʿAbbās — Abū Kurayb said in his narration from al-Ashjaʿī —: Nothing of what is in Paradise resembles what is in this world, except the names. And Ibn Bashshār said in his narration from Muʾammal, he said: There is nothing in this world of what is in Paradise, except the names.
535- ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ẓabyān, from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: There is nothing in this world of Paradise except the names.
536- Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd said regarding His statement: {and they are given thereof things in resemblance}, he said: They recognize its names just as they did in this world: apples as apples and pomegranates as pomegranates. They say in Paradise: {This is what we were provided with before} in this world, {and they are given thereof things in resemblance}—they recognize it, yet it is not like it in taste (1).
Abū Jaʿfar said: The most preferable of these interpretations regarding the interpretation of the verse is the interpretation of the one who said: "They are given thereof things in resemblance in color and appearance, while the taste is different." Meaning by that the resemblance of the fruit of Paradise and the fruit of this world in appearance and color, while differing in taste and flavor, because of the reason we previously presented concerning the interpretation of His statement: {Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they say, "This is what we were provided with before"}, and that its meaning is: Whenever they are provided in the Gardens with a provision from any of its fruits, they say: "This is what we were provided with before this in the world." Thus, God—may His praise be glorified—informed about them that they said that, and because they were brought what they were brought of that in Paradise as resembling—meaning by that the resemblance of what they were brought of it in Paradise and what they had been provided with in this world, in color, sight, and appearance, even if they differed in taste and flavor and thus diverged, so that nothing of what is in Paradise of that had any counterpart in this world.
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