Tabari (1 passage)

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   The discourse on the explanation of His statement: When it is said to them: "Come to what Allah has sent down and to the Messenger," they say: "Sufficient for us is that upon which we found our forefathers." Even though their forefathers knew nothing and were not rightly guided? (5:104)

   Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose praise is proclaimed, says: And when it is said to these who slit the ear of the baḥīras and let the sāʾibas roam free — those who do not realize that, by ascribing the prohibition of those things to Allah, the Exalted, they are inventing a lie against Allah — "Come to the revelation of Allah and the verses of His Book and to His Messenger, so that the falsehood may become clear to you of what you say when you ascribe to Allah, the Exalted, the prohibition of those things which you prohibit," then they answer the one who calls them to that with the words: "Sufficient for us is that upon which we found our predecessors, our forefathers, according to what they did." And they say: "We are their followers, and they are for us leaders and predecessors; we have enough in what we have taken over from them, and we are content with that upon which they stood concerning prohibition and permission."

   Allah, the Exalted, whose praise is proclaimed, said to His prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: Even though the forefathers of these who make this statement knew nothing? He says: They did not know that what they ascribe to Allah, the Exalted, concerning the prohibition of the baḥīra, the sāʾiba, the waṣīla, and the ḥām, is a lie and an invention against Allah, without any reality or validity, for they were the followers of the inventors who had begun prohibiting these things, as an invention against Allah, through their statement in which they ascribed to Allah, the Exalted, what they ascribed. And in that which they did of this, they were not upon righteousness and correctness, but rather they were in error and misguidance.

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   القول في تأويل قوله : وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا إِلَى مَا أَنْـزَلَ اللَّهُ وَإِلَى الرَّسُولِ قَالُوا حَسْبُنَا مَا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ آبَاءَنَا أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ شَيْئًا وَلا يَهْتَدُونَ (104) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره: وإذا قيل لهؤلاء الذين يبحرون البحائر ويسيِّبون السوائب؟ الذين لا يعقلون أنهم بإضافتهم تحريم ذلك إلى الله تعالى ذكره يفترون على الله الكذب: تعالوا إلى تنـزيل الله وآي كتابه وإلى رسوله, ليتبين لكم كذبُ قيلكم فيم تضيفونه إلى الله تعالى ذكره من تحريمكم ما تحرِّمون من هذه الأشياء (1) = أجابوا من دعاهم إلى ذلك بأن يقولوا: حسبنا ما وجدنا عليه من قبلنا آباءَنا يعملون به, ويقولون: " نحن لهم تبع وهم لنا أئمة وقادة, وقد اكتفينا بما أخذنا عنهم، ورضينا بما كانوا عليه من تحريم وتحليل ". (2) قال الله تعالى ذكره لنبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم: أوَ لو كان آباء هؤلاء القائلين هذه المقالة لا يعلمون شيئًا؟ يقول: لم يكونوا يعلمون أنّ ما يضيفونه إلى الله تعالى ذكره من تحريم البحيرة والسائبة والوصيلة والحام، كذبٌ وفريةٌ على الله, لا حقيقة لذلك ولا صحة، لأنهم كانوا أتباع المفترين الذين ابتدءوا تحريم ذلك، افتراءً على الله بقيلهم ما كانوا يقولون من إضافتهم إلى الله تعالى ذكره ما يضيفون = ولا كانوا فيما هم به عاملون من ذلك على استقامة وصواب, (3) بل كانوا على ضلالة وخطأ. ------------------- الهوامش : (1) انظر تفسير"تعالوا" فيما سلف 6: 474 ، 483 ، 485/8: 513. (2) انظر تفسير"حسب" فيما سلف 4: 244/7: 405. (3) في المطبوعة: "ما كانوا فيما هم به عاملون" ، وفي المخطوطة: "كانوا" بغير"ما" ، والسياق يقتضي ما أثبت ، لأنه معطوف على قوله آنفاً: "يقول: لم يكونوا يعلمون. . ."