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

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on the authority of Qatāda concerning His statement: {"How can you disbelieve in Allah while you were dead..."} the verse. He said: They were dead in the loins of their fathers (1), so Allah gave them life and created them, then He caused them to die the death that is inevitable, then He brought them back to life for the Resurrection on the Day of Resurrection; thus, they are two lives and two deaths (2).

And some of them said according to what:

586- Yūnus narrated it to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said concerning the statement of Allah the Exalted: {"Our Lord, You have caused us to die twice and given us life twice"}. He said: He created them from the back of Adam when He took the covenant from them, and he recited: {And when your Lord took from the Children of Adam—from their loins—their offspring}, until he reached: {or lest you say, "It was only that our fathers associated partners with Allah before us, and we were descendants after them; will You then destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?"} [Sūrat al-Aʿrāf: 172-173]. He said: So He endowed them with intellect and took the covenant from them. He said: And He extracted a short rib from among Adam's ribs (3) and created Eve from it—he mentioned this from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him. He said: And that is the statement of Allah the Exalted: {O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men} [Sūrat al-Nisāʾ: 1]; he said: and He dispersed from both of them after that in the wombs many creations (4), and he recited: {He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation} [Sūrat al-Zumar: 6]; he said: creation after that. He said: So when He took the covenant from them, He caused them to die, then He created them in the wombs, then He caused them to die, then He will bring them to life on the Day of Resurrection; so that is the statement of Allah: {They said, "Our Lord, You have caused us to die twice and given us life twice, and we have confessed our sins"},

Notes

(1) In the manuscript: "fī aṣlabatihi", and the correct reading is "ṣalibati" (with kasra on the ṣād and fatḥa on the lām) or "aṣlub" (with sukūn on the ṣād and ḍamma on the lām). All of them are plurals of ṣulb (with ḍamma then sukūn): which is the backbone from the upper back down to the coccyx.
(2) Reports: 575–585: Some are in Ibn Kathīr 1: 122 summarized, and some are in al-Durr al-Manthūr 1: 42, and al-Shawkānī 1: 46, and we disliked lengthening by detailing them.
(3) Al-Quṣayrā, in the diminutive form: It is the rib adjacent to the flank at the lowest part of the ribs, and it is the shortest of them.
(4) In the printed edition: "and He scattered in both of them after that...", which is an error.

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Arabic (Source)

عن قتادة، قوله:"كيف تكفرون بالله وكنتم أمواتًا" الآية. قال: كانوا أمواتًا في أصلاب آبائهم (١) ، فأحياهم الله وخلقهم، ثم أماتهم الموتة التي لا بد منها، ثم أحياهم للبعث يوم القيامة، فهما حياتان وموتتان (٢) .وقال بعضهم بما:٥٨٦- حدثني به يونس، قال: أنبأنا ابن وهب، قال: قال ابن زيد، في قول الله تعالى:"ربنا أمتنا اثنتين وأحييتنا اثنتين". قال: خلقهم من ظهر آدم حين أخذ عليهم الميثاق، وقرأ: (وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ) ، حتى بلغ: (أَوْ تَقُولُوا إِنَّمَا أَشْرَكَ آبَاؤُنَا مِنْ قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةً مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ) [سورة الأعراف: ١٧٢-١٧٣] . قال: فكسبهم العقل وأخذ عليهم الميثاق. قال: وانتزع ضلعًا من أضلاع آدم القُصَيرى (٣) فخلق منه حواء - ذكرَه عن النبي ﷺ. قال: وذلك قول الله تعالى: (يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالا كَثِيرًا) [سورة النساء: ١] ، قال: وبثّ منهما بعد ذلك في الأرحام خلقًا كثيرًا (٤) ، وقرأ: (يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَاتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِنْ بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ) [سورة الزمر: ٦] ، قال: خلقا بعد ذلك. قال: فلما أخذ عليهم الميثاق أماتهم، ثم خلقهم في الأرحام، ثم أماتهم، ثم أحياهم يوم القيامة، فذلك قول الله: (قَالُوا رَبَّنَا أَمَتَّنَا اثْنَتَيْنِ وَأَحْيَيْتَنَا اثْنَتَيْنِ فَاعْتَرَفْنَا بِذُنُوبِنَا) ،

Notes

(١) في المخطوطة: "في أصلبة"، والصواب"صلبة" (بكسر الصاد وفتح اللام) أو"أصلب" (بسكون الصاد وضم اللام) . وكلها جمع صلب (بضم فسكون) : وهو عظم الظهر من لدن الكاهل إلى عجب الذنب.(٢) الآثار: ٥٧٥ - ٥٨٥: بعضها في ابن كثير ١: ١٢٢ مجملة، وبعضها في الدر المنثور ١: ٤٢، والشوكاني ١: ٤٦، وكرهنا الإطالة بتفصيلها.(٣) القصيري، بالتصغير: هي الضلع التي تلي الشاكلة أسفل الأضلاع، وهي أقصرهن.(٤) في المطبوعة: "وبث فيهما بعد ذلك. . "، وهو خطأ.