Tafseer of The Family of Imraan · Aal-i-Imraan · 3:5
Indeed, from Allah nothing is hidden in the earth nor in the heaven.
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Discussion of the explanation of His word: "Indeed, from Allah nothing is hidden, neither on the earth nor in the heaven" (3:5)
Abū Jaʿfar said: He, exalted is His praise, means by this: Indeed, from Allah nothing is hidden of what is on the earth, nor anything that is in the heaven. He says: How then could it remain hidden from Me, O Muḥammad ﷺ — and I am the Knower of all things — that with which these people who dispute with you concerning the signs of Allah — the Christians of Najrān regarding ʿĪsā the son of Maryam — keep up a false pretense, in the statement that they make about him?! As in:
6566 - Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, he said: Salama related to us, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr: "Indeed, from Allah nothing is hidden, neither on the earth nor in the heaven," that is to say: He has already known what they want, and what scheme they are plotting, and that with which they keep up a false pretense in their statement about ʿĪsā, when they made him a lord and a god, while they possessed of his knowledge something other than that — out of blindness toward Allah and out of disbelief (kufr) toward Him.
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The footnotes:
(48) The narration 6566 - belongs to the remaining narrations of which the last bears the number 6564, derived from the Sīra of Ibn Isḥāq.
