Tabari (1 passage)

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   And His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) ("Verily, when the water overflowed its banks, We carried you in the sailing vessel"). He, exalted is His mention, says: Verily, when the water increased and exceeded its known limit, the one fixed for it — and that was the time of the Flood.

   And it has been said: it rose and ascended above everything by a measure of fifteen cubits.

   * Mention of who said that, and of who said, concerning His words ( طَغَى ) ("overflowed its banks"), something similar to our statement:

   Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ), he said: it has reached us that it rose above everything by fifteen cubits.

   Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ): that was the time of Nūḥ; the water rose above everything by fifteen cubits, according to the measure of every thing.

   Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Yaʿqūb al-Qummī related to us, on the authority of Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīra, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ), he said: not a drop descended from the heaven but that it was with the knowledge of the keepers, except where the water overflowed its banks; for it raged on account of the wrath of Allah, and it overflowed its banks past the keepers, so that there came forth what they did not know what it was.

   ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ), he says only: when it increased.

   Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, saying: my father related to me, saying: my uncle related to me, saying: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ): he means that the water increased in the nights in which Allah drowned the people of Nūḥ.

   Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His words: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ ). Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr said in his transmission: it swelled (ṭamā), and al-Ḥārith said: it appeared at the surface (ẓahara).

   It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faraj, saying: I heard Abū Muʿādh say: ʿUbayd related to us, on the authority of al-Ḍaḥḥāk, concerning His words: ( لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ): it increased and rose.

   And His words: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) say: We carried you in the ship that sails upon the water.

   And similar to what we have said concerning this, the exegetes have declared.

   * Mention of who said that:

   Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, saying: my father related to me, saying: my uncle related to me, saying: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His words: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ): al-jāriya is the ship.

   Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said, concerning His words: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ): and al-jāriya is the ship of Nūḥ in which you were carried. And it has been said: "We carried you," while He addressed those among whom the Qurʾān was sent down, although only their forefathers, Nūḥ and his children, were carried — because those who were addressed by this were the descendants of those who were carried in the sailing vessel. Thus the carrying of those who were carried therein among the forefathers was a carrying of their progeny, in accordance with what we have expounded concerning comparable cases in many places in this book of ours.

   And His words: ( لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً ) ("that We might make it a reminder for you") say: that We might make the sailing ship in which We carried you a reminder for you, that is to say, a lesson and an admonition by which you take heed.

   And similar to what we have said concerning this, the exegetes have declared.

   * Mention of who said that:

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   وقوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) يقول تعالى ذكره: إنا لما كثر الماء فتجاوز حدّه المعروف، كان له، وذلك زمن الطوفان. وقيل: إنه زاد فعلا فوق كلّ شيء بقدر خمس عشرة ذراعا. * ذكر من قال ذلك، ومن قال في قوله: ( طَغَى ) مثل قولنا: حدثنا ابن عبد الأعلى، قال: ثنا ابن ثور، عن معمر، عن قتادة ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ) قال: بلغنا أنه طغى فوق كلّ شيء خمس عشرة ذراعا. حدثنا بشر، قال: ثنا يزيد، قال: ثنا سعيد، عن قتادة، قوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ): ذاكم زمن نوح، طغى الماء على كلّ شيء خمس عشرة ذراعا بقدر كل شيء. حدثنا ابن حميد، قال: ثنا يعقوب القُمّي، عن جعفر بن أبي المغيرة، عن سعيد بن جُبير، في قوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) قال: لم تنـزل من السماء قطرة إلا بعلم الخزَّان، إلا حيث طغى الماء، فإنه قد غضب لغضب الله، فطغى على الخزان، فخرج ما لا يعلمون ما هو. حدثني عليّ، قال: ثنا أبو صالح، قال: ثني معاوية، عن عليّ، عن ابن عباس، قوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) إنما يقول: لما كثر. حدثني محمد بن سعد، قال: ثني أبي، قال: ثني عمي، قال: ثني أبي، عن أبيه، عن ابن عباس، قوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ): يعني كثر الماء ليالي غرّق الله قوم نوح. حدثني محمد بن عمرو، قال: ثنا أبو عاصم، قال: ثنا عيسى؛ وحدثني الحارث، قال: ثنا الحسن، قال: ثنا ورقاء جميعا، عن ابن أبي نجيح، عن مجاهد، قوله: ( إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ حَمَلْنَاكُمْ ) قال محمد بن عمرو في حديثه: طما، وقال الحارث: ظهر. حُدثت عن الحسين بن الفرج، قال: سمعت أبا معاذ يقول: ثنا عبيد، عن الضحاك، في قوله: ( لَمَّا طَغَى الْمَاءُ ) : كثر وارتفع. وقوله: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) يقول: حملناكم في السفينة التي تجري في الماء. وبنحو الذي قلنا في ذلك قال أهل التأويل. * ذكر من قال ذلك: حدثني محمد بن سعد، قال: ثني أبي، قال: ثني عمي، قال: ثني أبي، عن أبيه، عن ابن عباس، قوله: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) الجارية: السفينة. حدثني يونس، قال: أخبرنا ابن وهب، قال، قال ابن زيد، في قوله: ( حَمَلْنَاكُمْ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ ) والجارية: سفينة نوح التي حملتم فيها؛ وقيل: حملناكم، فخاطب الذين نـزل فيهم القرآن، وإنما حمل أجدادهم نوحا وولده، لأن الذين خوطبوا بذلك ولد الذين حملوا في الجارية، فكان حمل الذين حملوا فيها من الأجداد حملا لذريتهم، على ما قد بيَّنا من نظائر ذلك في أماكن كثيرة من كتابنا هذا. وقوله: ( لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً ) يقول: لنجعل السفينة الجارية التي حملناكم فيها لكم تذكرة، يعني عبرة وموعظة تتعظون بها. وبنحو الذي قلنا في ذلك قال أهل التأويل. * ذكر من قال ذلك: