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

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624- And Ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us, he said: Salama b. al-Faḍl narrated to us, from Ibn Isḥāq: "while we glorify You with Your praise and sanctify You," we do not disobey, nor do we commit anything You dislike (1).

625- And I was told from al-Minjāb, he said: Bishr narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, regarding His statement: "and sanctify You," he said: Sanctification is purification (2).

As for the statement of those who said that sanctification is prayer or exaltation, the meaning of their statement returns to the meaning we mentioned of purification, because their prayer to their Lord is an exaltation of Him from them, and a purification from what the people of disbelief in Him attribute to Him. And if He had said instead of "and sanctify You (nuqaddisu laka)", "and sanctify You (nuqaddisuka)", it would have been eloquent speech. That is because the Arabs say: "So-and-so glorifies God and sanctifies Him (yusabbiḥu Allāha wa yuqaddisuhu)," and "glorifies God and sanctifies Him (yusabbiḥu lillāhi wa yuqaddisu lahu)," with the same meaning. The Qurʾān has come with that; God, may His praise be exalted, said: {That we may glorify You much, and remember You much} (Sūrat Ṭāhā: 33-34), and He said in another place: {Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth glorifies God} (Sūrat al-Jumuʿa: 1)

The statement regarding the interpretation of His, the Exalted's, statement: {He said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know" (30)}

Abū Jaʿfar said: The scholars of interpretation have differed regarding the interpretation of that. Some of them said: He means by His statement: "I know that which you do not know," of what He observed from Iblīs, and his harboring disobedience to God and his concealing arrogance, of what He, Blessed and Exalted, observed from him and was hidden from His angels.

Mention of who said that:

626- Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ narrated to us, he said: ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd narrated to us, he said: Bishr b. ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās: "Indeed, I know

Notes

(1) The tradition: 624 - In Ibn Kathīr (1: 129).
(2) The tradition: 625 - In Ibn Kathīr (1: 129), and in al-Durr al-Manthūr (1: 46): "And Ibn Abī Ḥātim transmitted from Ibn ʿAbbās that he said: Sanctification (al-taqdīs) is purification (al-taṭhīr)," and he did not attribute it to al-Ḍaḥḥāk nor to Ibn Jarīr.

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Arabic (Source)

٦٢٤- وحدثنا ابن حميد، قال: حدثنا سلمة بن الفضل، عن ابن إسحاق:"ونحن نسبِّح بحمدك ونقدس لك"، لا نَعْصي ولا نأتي شيئًا تكرهُه (١) .٦٢٥- وحدثت عن المنجاب، قال: حدثنا بشر، عن أبي رَوْق، عن الضحاك، في قوله:"ونقدس لك"، قال: التقديس: التطهير (٢) .وأما قول من قال: إن التقديس الصلاة أو التعظيم، فإن معنى قوله ذلك راجع إلى المعنى الذي ذكرناه من التطهير، من أجل أنّ صلاتها لربها تعظيم منها له، وتطهير مما ينسبه إليه أهل الكفر به. ولو قال مكانَ:"ونقدِّس لك" و"نقدِّسك"، كان فصيحا من الكلام. وذلك أن العرب تقول: فلان يسبح الله ويقدِّسه، ويسبح لله ويقدِّس له، بمعنى واحد. وقد جاء بذلك القرآن، قال الله جل ثناؤه: (كَيْ نُسَبِّحَكَ كَثِيرًا وَنَذْكُرَكَ كَثِيرًا) [سورة طه: ٣٣-٣٤] ، وقال في موضع آخر: (يُسَبِّحُ لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ) [سورة الجمعة: ١]* * *القول في تأويل قوله تعالى: ﴿قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لا تَعْلَمُونَ (٣٠) ﴾قال أبو جعفر: اختلف أهل التأويل في تأويل ذلك، فقال بعضهم: يعني بقوله:"أعلم ما لا تعلمون"، مما اطلع عليه من إبليس، وإضماره المعصيةَ لله وإخفائه الكبر، مما اطلع عليه تبارك وتعالى منه وخفي على ملائكته.* ذكر من قال ذلك:٦٢٦- حدثنا محمد بن العلاء، قال: حدثنا عثمان بن سعيد، قال: حدثنا بشر بن عمارة، عن أبي روق، عن الضحاك، عن ابن عباس:"إني أعلم

Notes

(١) الأثر: ٦٢٤- في ابن كثير ١: ١٢٩.(٢) الأثر: ٦٢٥- في ابن كثير ١: ١٢٩، وفي الدر المنثور ١: ٤٦: "وأخرج ابن أبي حاتم عن ابن عباس، قال: التقديس: التطهير"، ولم ينسبه للضحاك، ولا لابن جرير.