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

Volume 1 · Page 413

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574- Bishr ibn Muʿādh narrated to us, He said: Yazīd narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: "{And sever what Allah has commanded to be joined}"—so he severed, by Allah, what Allah commanded to be joined, through the severing of the ties of kinship and blood relationship (1).

And some of them interpreted that as Allah censuring them for their cutting off the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of God be upon him), the believers in him, and their kin. They cited as proof for that the general apparent meaning of the verse, and that there is no indication that a specific part of what Allah commanded to be joined is meant to the exclusion of another (2).

Abu Jaʿfar said: This is an approach to interpreting the verse that is not far from being correct; however, Allah—majestic is His praise—has mentioned the hypocrites in more than one verse of His Book, describing them as severing ties of kinship. So this verse is counterpart to those. Yet, even if that is the case, it nonetheless indicates Allah's censure of every severer who severs what Allah has commanded to be joined, whether it be kinship or otherwise.

The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of Him Whose praise is majestic: ﴿And cause corruption in the earth﴾

Abu Jaʿfar said: Their corruption in the earth is what we have previously described before, regarding their disobedience to their Lord, their disbelief in Him, their calling His Messenger a liar, their denial of his prophethood, and their rejection of what he brought them from Allah as being the truth from Him.

Notes

(1) Narration 574: In al-Durr al-Manthūr (1/42) and al-Shawkānī (1/46) in abbreviated form, and its wording there is: "And they sever what Allah has commanded to be joined; he said: ties of kinship and blood relationship."
(2) In the manuscript: "And the general Apparent (Zahir) meaning of the verse was cited as evidence for that, though there is no indication..."

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Arabic (Source)

٥٧٤- حدثنا بشر بن معاذ، قال حدثنا يزيد، عن سعيد، عن قتادة:"ويقطعون ما أمر الله به أنْ يوصَل"، فقطع والله ما أمر الله به أن يوصل بقطيعة الرحم والقرابة (١) .وقد تأول بعضهم ذلك: أن الله ذمهم بقطعهم رسول الله ﷺ والمؤمنين به وأرحامَهم. واستشهد على ذلك بعموم ظاهر الآية، وأن لا دلالة على أنه معنيٌّ بها بعضُ ما أمر الله وصله دون بعض (٢) .قال أبو جعفر: وهذا مذهبٌ من تأويل الآية غيرُ بعيد من الصواب، ولكن الله جل ثناؤه قد ذكر المنافقين في غير آية من كتابه، فوصفهم بقطع الأرحام. فهذه نظيرةُ تلك، غير أنها -وإن كانت كذلك- فهي دَالَّةٌ على ذمّ الله كلّ قاطعٍ قطعَ ما أمر الله بوصله، رَحمًا كانتْ أو غيرَها.* * *القول في تأويل قوله جل ثناؤه: ﴿وَيُفْسِدُونَ فِي الأرْضِ﴾قال أبو جعفر: وفسادُهم في الأرض: هو ما تقدم وَصَفْناه قبلُ من معصيتهم ربَّهم، وكفرهم به، وتكذيبهم رسوله، وجحدهم نبوته، وإنكارهم ما أتاهم به من عند الله أنه حقٌّ من عنده.* * *

Notes

(١) الأثر: ٥٧٤- في الدر المنثور ١: ٤٢، والشوكاني ١: ٤٦ مختصرًا، ونصه هناك: "ويقطعون ما أمر الله به أن يوصل، قال: الرحم والقرابة".(٢) في المخطوطة: "واستشهد على ذلك عموم ظاهر الآية، ولا دلالة. . ".