8457 - Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Dimashqi mentioned, Muhammad ibn Shu'ayb ibn Shabur told us, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak informed me that he heard Abu Bakr al-Hudhali and 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Jurayj say, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, who said: [They said to those who were forbidding them] "Woe to you! Fear Allah! Woe to you! Allah forbids you from exposing yourselves to the punishment of Allah." And [the others] said: "Why do you advise a people whom Allah is to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?" He said: They said, "To be free from blame before your Lord, and perhaps they may become righteous. If they cease, then that is more beloved to us than that they be afflicted and perish; but if they do not cease, then [this is] a reason to be free from blame before your Lord." So they persisted in their sin. He said: [The forbidders] said, "You have indeed done it, O enemies of Allah! By Allah, we will not stay overnight with you in your city. By Allah, we do not think that you will reach the morning before Allah afflicts you with a sinking, a stoning, or some other punishment that He has."

His saying, the Almighty: "And perhaps they may become righteous."

8458 - Abu Yazid al-Qaratisi informed us, in what he wrote to me, Asbagh ibn al-Faraj told us, he said: I heard 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn Aslam regarding the saying of Allah the Almighty: "And when a faction among them said, 'Why do you advise a people whom Allah is to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?' They said, 'To be free from blame before your Lord, and perhaps they may become righteous'"—meaning, perhaps they will abandon this deed which they are upon.

His saying, the Almighty: "And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded."

8459 - My father told us, Abu Salih told us, Mu'awiyah ibn Salih narrated to me, from 'Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn 'Abbas regarding His saying: "And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded"—meaning, they abandoned that by which they had been reminded.

8460 - Muhammad ibn Hammad al-Tahrani informed us, in what he wrote to me, 'Abd al-Razzaq informed us, he said: Ibn Jurayj said regarding His saying: "And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded"—he said: When they forgot the advice of the believers to them, those who said, "Why do you advise a people whom Allah is to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?"

His saying, the Almighty: "We saved those who had forbidden evil."

[The First View]

8461 - My father told us, al-Hasan ibn al-Rabi' told us, 'Abd Allah ibn Idris told us, Muhammad ibn Ishaq told us, Dawud ibn al-Husayn narrated to me, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, regarding the saying of Allah the Almighty: "We saved those who had forbidden evil"—he said: They were three parts: a third who forbade [the sin], a third who said, "Why do you advise a people?", and a third who were the people of the sin. None were saved except those who had forbidden it, and the rest of them perished.