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

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It is said regarding this: I obscured (labastu) this matter for him, I obscure (albisuhu) it with obscuration (labsan): when you confuse it for him. Just as:

822 - I was narrated from al-Minjāb, from Bishr ibn ʿUmāra, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding His statement: {And We would have obscured for them that which they are obscuring} [Sūrat al-Anʿām: 9], he says: We would have confused for them that which they confuse.

And from it is the saying of al-ʿAjjāj: When they confused the truth with false accusation ... they became free of need and took Zayd in exchange for me

He means by his statement "confused" (labasna): they mixed. As for wearing (al-lubs), it is said regarding it: I wore it (labistuhu), I wear it (albasuhu), wearing (lubsan) and clothing (malbasan); and that is the garment a person dresses in and wears. And from wearing (al-lubs) is the saying of al-Akhṭal: Indeed I have worn this age through its eras ... until gray hair covered my head and blazed

And from obscuring (al-labs) is the statement of Allah, Exalted be His Praise: {And We would have obscured for them that which they are obscuring} [Sūrat al-Anʿām: 9].

If a questioner were to say to us: How were they confounding the truth with falsehood while they were disbelievers? And what truth were they upon alongside their disbelief in Allah?

It is said: Indeed, there were hypocrites among them who outwardly expressed belief in Muḥammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, while inwardly concealing disbelief in him. And the majority of them used to say: Muḥammad is a prophet sent, except that he

Notes

(1) In the printed edition: "You confounded the matter for them... confused it for them."
(2) Report: 822—I did not find it anywhere, nor did al-Ṭabarī mention it in its place in the exegesis of this verse in Sūrat al-Anʿām (7: 98 Būlāq).
(3) His Dīwān: 65. Ghaniya ʿan al-shayʾ and istaghnā: he cast it aside, threw it away from his sight, and paid no attention to it.
(4) In the printed edition: "and that is in clothing..." with the addition.
(5) His Dīwān: 142, in which it is "and I have worn". And aʿṣur is the plural of ʿaṣr, which is time and age. Here it means the vicissitudes of days, their sweet and bitter, so it was pluralized. And labisa lahu aʿṣurah: he lived and endured its good and bad. And tajallala al-shaybu raʾsah: gray hair covered his head.
(6) In the printed edition: "If he said..."
(7) In the printed edition: "and the greatest of them was..." which is a corruption like which has occurred repeatedly. And ʿuẓm al-shayʾ: the bulk and main part of it.

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Arabic (Source)

يقال منه: لَبَست عليه هذا الأمر ألبِسُه لبسًا: إذا خلطته عليه (١) . كما:-٨٢٢ - حُدِّثت عن المنجاب، عن بشر بن عمارة، عن أبي روق، عن الضحاك، عن ابن عباس في قوله: (وَلَلَبَسْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَا يَلْبِسُونَ) [سورة الأنعام: ٩] يقول: لخلطنا عليهم ما يخلطون (٢) .ومنه قول العجاج:لَمَّا لَبَسْنَ الْحَقَّ بِالتَّجَنِّي ... غَنِينَ وَاسْتَبْدَلْنَ زَيْدًا مِنِّي (٣)يعني بقوله:"لبسن"، خلطن. وأما اللُّبس فإنه يقال منه: لبِسْته ألبَسُه لُبْسًا ومَلْبَسًا، وذلك الكسوةُ يكتسيها فيلبسها (٤) . ومن اللُّبس قول الأخطل:لَقَدْ لَبِسْتُ لِهَذَا الدَّهْرِ أَعْصُرَهُ ... حَتَّى تَجَلَّلَ رَأْسِي الشَّيْبُ واشْتَعَلا (٥)ومن اللبس قول الله جل ثناؤه: (وَلَلَبَسْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَا يَلْبِسُونَ) . [سورة الأنعام: ٩]* * *فإن قال لنا قائل (٦) وكيف كانوا يلبِسون الحق بالباطل وهم كفّار؟ وأيُّ حق كانوا عليه مع كفرهم بالله؟قيل: إنه كان فيهم منافقون منهم يظهرون التصديق بمحمد ﷺ ويستبطنون الكفر به. وكان عُظْمُهم يقولون (٧) : محمد نبيٌّ مبعوث، إلا أنه

Notes

(١) في المطبوعة: "لبست عليهم الأمر. . . خلطته عليهم".(٢) الخبر: ٨٢٢- لم أجده في مكان، ولم يذكره الطبري في مكانه من تفسير هذه الآية في سورة الأنعام (٧: ٩٨ بولاق) .(٣) ديوانه: ٦٥. غني عن الشيء واستغنى: اطرحه ورمى به من عينه ولم يلتفت إليه.(٤) في المطبوعة: "وذلك في الكسوة. . . "، بالزيادة.(٥) ديوانه: ١٤٢، وفيه"وقد لبست". وأعصر جمع عصر: وهو الدهر والزمان. وعني هنا اختلاف الأيام حلوها ومرها، فجمع. ولبس له أعصره: عاش وقاسى خيره وشره. وتجلل الشيب رأسه: علاه.(٦) في المطبوعة: "إن قال. . . ".(٧) في المطبوعة: "وكان أعظمهم. . . "، وهو تحريف قد مضى مثله مرارًا. وعظم الشيء: معظمه وأكثره.