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

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And others stated that which:

842- Musa ibn Harun narrated to me, saying: 'Amr ibn Hammad narrated to me, saying: Asbat narrated to us, from al-Suddi: {Do you order righteousness upon the people and forget yourselves}, he said: They used to order people with obedience to God and God-fearingness of Him, while they disobeyed Him.

843- And al-Hasan ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: 'Abd al-Razzaq informed us, saying: Ma'mar informed us, from Qatada, regarding His statement: {Do you order righteousness upon the people and forget yourselves}, he said: The Children of Israel used to order people with obedience to God, God-fearingness of Him, and righteousness, while contradicting it themselves, so God reproached them.

844- And al-Qasim narrated to us, saying: al-Husayn narrated to us, saying: al-Hajjaj narrated to us, saying: Ibn Jurayj said: {Do you order righteousness upon the people}, the People of the Book and the hypocrites used to order people with Fasting and Prayer, while abandoning acting upon what they ordered people to do, so God reproached them for that; therefore, whoever orders good should be the quickest of people to hasten toward it.

And others stated that which:

845- Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la narrated to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said: These Jews, when a man came to ask them about a matter in which there was no right, bribe, or anything, they would order him with the truth. So God said to them: {Do you order righteousness upon the people and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book? Do you not then reason?} (1)

846- And 'Ali ibn al-Hasan narrated to me, saying: Muslim al-Jarmi narrated to us, saying: Makhlad ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, from Ayyub al-Sikhtiyani, from Abu Qilaba, regarding the statement of God: {Do you order righteousness upon the people and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book?}, he said: Abu al-Darda' said: A man does not attain complete understanding until he hates people for the sake of God, then turns back to himself and is even more hating toward it. (2)

Notes

(1) The narration: 845—in Ibn Kathīr 1/154, and in it: "When a man came, he asked them about a thing not in it...", and in the manuscript: "asking them [about what is] not in it".
(2) The report: 846—Ibn Kathīr (1/154) quoted it from this location. Al-Suyūṭī mentioned it (1/64) and attributed it also to ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Ibn Abī Shayba, and al-Bayhaqī in al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt, and al-Shawkānī followed him in this (1/65). Al-Bayhaqī narrated it on p. 210 via ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Maʿmar, from Ayyūb, with similar meaning. As for "Muslim al-Jarmī": it occurred in Ibn Kathīr at this location as "Aslam", which is a typographical error. And it occurred in it and in the manuscripts of al-Ṭabarī as "al-Ḥaramī", with a ḥāʾ. We have preferred in his biography—previously: 154—that it is with a jīm. We mentioned the sources for his biography there, and we add here that Ibn Abī Ḥātim wrote his biography in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl 4/1/188, describing him as being "among the fighters". His teacher, "Mukhlad ibn al-Ḥusayn"—with a fatḥa on the mīm and lām, between them a dotted khāʾ with a sukūn—is a well-known trustworthy narrator. Ibn Saʿd said: "He was trustworthy and virtuous", and Abū Dāwūd said: "He was the most intelligent of the people of his time." And Abū Qilāba is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Jarmī, one of the prominent reliable Successors; I view his narration from Abū al-Dardāʾ as Mursal, for Abū al-Dardāʾ died in the year 32 AH, while Abū Qilāba was late in death, dying in the year 104 AH, or it was said 107 AH.

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