was sent to other than us. So the hypocrite among them confounding the truth with falsehood was his expressing the truth with his tongue and acknowledging Muḥammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and what he brought openly, while mixing that outward truth with what he concealed within. And the confounding of the truth with falsehood by the one among them who acknowledged that he was sent to others while denying that he was sent to them, was his acknowledgment that he was sent to others—which is the truth—and his denial that he was sent to them—which is falsehood, when Allah had in fact sent him to all of creation. Thus was their mixing of truth with falsehood and their confounding of the former with the latter. Just as:
823 - Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, he said: Bishr ibn ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās, regarding His statement: "And do not confound the truth with falsehood," he said: Do not mix truthfulness with falsehood.
824 - Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Ādam narrated to us, he said: Abū Jaʿfar narrated to us, from al-Rabīʿ, from Abū al-ʿĀliya: "And do not confound the truth with falsehood," he says: Do not mix the truth with falsehood, and fulfill sincere counsel to the servants of Allah regarding the matter of Muḥammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him.
825 - Al-Qāsim narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, he said: Ibn Jurayj said: Mujāhid said: "And do not confound the truth with falsehood," Judaism and Christianity with Islam.
826 - Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said regarding His statement: "And do not confound the truth with falsehood," he said: The truth is the Torah which Allah revealed to Moses, and falsehood is that which they wrote with their own hands.
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