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

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And others among them said: Rather, both have the same meaning; it is said: "jazat 'anka shātun" and "ajza'at", and "jazā 'anka dirhamun" and "ajzā", and "lā tajzī 'anka shātun" and "lā tujzī", carrying one and the same meaning—except that they mentioned that "jazat 'anka" and "lā tujzī 'anka" belong to the dialect of the people of al-Ḥijāz, while "ajza'a" and "tujzi'u" belong to the dialect of others. They claimed that Banū Tamīm specifically among the Arab tribes say: "ajza'at 'anka shātun, wa-hiya tujzi'u 'anka". And others claimed that "jazā" without a hamza means "fulfilled/settled" (qaḍā), whereas "ajza'a" with a hamza means "rewarded/compensated" (kāfa'a). Thus, the meaning of the discourse is: And fear a Day when no soul shall settle anything on behalf of another soul, nor avail it in any way.

If someone were to say to us: What is the meaning of: "No soul shall settle anything on behalf of another soul, nor avail it in any way"?

It is said: It means that today one of us might settle a debt on behalf of his child, father, friend, or relative. As for the Hereafter, according to the reports that have reached us concerning it, a man would be pleased to have a valid claim proven against his child or father. That is because the settling of rights on the Day of Resurrection is through good deeds and evil deeds. Just as:

875- Abū Kurayb and Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī narrated to us, saying: Al-Muḥāribī narrated to us, from Abū Khālid al-Dālānī Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Zayd ibn Abī Anīsa, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayra, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "May Allah have mercy on a servant who owed his brother a wrong concerning honor"—Abū Kurayb said in his narration: "or wealth, or status—so he asked him to pardon it before it is taken from him when there is neither dinar nor dirham. For if he has good deeds, they will take from his good deeds; and if he has no good deeds, they will burden him with their evil deeds."

Notes

(1) See what came regarding that in Lisān al-ʿArab (j-z-y); and what al-Ṭabarī presented is more complete and clearer.
(2) Yaridu ʿalayhi ḥaqq: it became obligatory and binding. And yaridu lī kadhā wa-kadhā: meaning it was established. And it is said: "I have a cold thousand against him (lī ʿalayhi alf bārid)", that is, established.
(3) Hadith: 875 – This is an authentic chain of transmission. Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī: previously mentioned in 423, and it was recorded in the commentary there as "al-Tājī", which is an oversight; the correct reading is "al-Nājī" with a nūn. And "al-Azdī" with a zāy; in the printed edition here it is "al-Awdī" with a wāw, which is an error. Al-Muḥāribī: he is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, previously mentioned in 221. Abū Khālid al-Dālānī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: they spoke concerning him, but the truth is that he is trustworthy; Abū Ḥātim and others declared him trustworthy, and al-Bukhārī wrote his biography in al-Kabīr (4/2/346–347), as did Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/2/277), and neither mentioned any criticism against him. He is biographized in al-Tahdhīb under the agnomens (al-kunā) due to a disagreement regarding his father's name, but al-Tirmidhī and al-Ṭabarī preferred what we mentioned, as did al-Bukhārī and Ibn Abī Ḥātim. "Al-Dālānī" in the printed edition here is "al-Dūlābī", which is an error that we corrected from the manuscript.
And the hadith was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (3: 292) from Hannād and Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, both from al-Muḥāribī, with this chain of transmission, then he said: "This is a Hasan (Good) Sahih (Authentic) hadith. Mālik ibn Anas narrated similarly from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him)."
And his saying in the middle of the hadith, "Abū Kurayb said", in the printed edition is "Abū Bakr said", which is an obvious error; its correct reading is from the manuscript.

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