Tabari (1 passage)

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   His statement: إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ * بَلَى ("Indeed, he thought that he would never return. Yes indeed!"). The Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: indeed this one, who on the Day of Resurrection is given his book behind his back, thought in the worldly life that he would never return to Us and that he would not be resurrected after his death, so that he did not concern himself with whatever sins he committed; for he hoped for no reward and feared no punishment. One says of this: "ḥāra fulān ʿan hādhā al-amr" (so-and-so turned back from this matter), when he returns from it. And of this too is the report that has been transmitted on the authority of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, that in his supplication he used to say: "O Allah, indeed I seek refuge with You from al-ḥawr baʿda al-kawr (the relapse after steadfastness)" — by this he means: against returning to disbelief (kufr) after faith (īmān).

   And in accordance with what we have said about this, the people of interpretation (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.

   * Mention of those who said that:

   ʿAlī related to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, he said: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning his statement: إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ("Indeed, he thought that he would never return"). He says: would be resurrected.

   Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, he said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, he said: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, he said: al-Ḥasan related to us, he said: Warqāʾ related to us, both on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning his statement: إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ * بَلَى ("Indeed, he thought that he would never return. Yes indeed!"). He said: that he would not return to Us.

   Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning his statement: إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ("Indeed, he thought that he would never return"): that there is for him no return and no coming back.

   Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, he said: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda: أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ("that he would never return"). He said: that he would not come back; he says: that he would not be resurrected.

   Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, he said: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān: ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ("he thought that he would never return"). He said: would return.

   Yūnus related to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Ibn Zayd said concerning his statement: أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ("that he would never return"). He said: that he would not come back.

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   وقوله: ( إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ* بَلَى ) يقول تعالى ذكره: إنّ هذا الذي أُوتي كتابه وراء ظهره يوم القيامة، ظنّ في الدنيا أن لن يرجع إلينا، ولن يُبعث بعد مماته، فلم يكن يبالي ما ركب من المآثم؛ لأنه لم يكن يرجو ثوابًا، ولم يكن يخشى عقابًا، يقال منه: حار فلان عن هذا الأمر: إذا رجع عنه، ومنه الخبر الذي رُوي عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه كان يقول في دعائه: " اللَّهُمَّ إنّي أعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ" يعني بذلك: من الرجُوع إلى الكفر، بعد الإيمان. وبنحو الذي قلنا في ذلك قال أهل التأويل. * ذكر من قال ذلك: حدثني عليّ، قال: ثنا أبو صالح، قال: ثني معاوية، عن عليّ، عن ابن عباس، قوله: ( إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ) يقول: يُبعث . 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: ( إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ * بَلَى ) قال: أن لا يرجع إلينا . حدثنا بشر، قال: ثنا يزيد، قال: ثنا سعيد، عن قتادة، قوله: ( إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ) : أن لا مَعَادَ له ولا رجعة . حدثنا ابن عبد الأعلى، قال: ثنا ابن ثور، عن معمر، عن قتادة ( أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ) قال: أن لن ينقلب: يقول: أن لن يبعث . حدثنا ابن حميد، قال: ثنا مهران، عن سفيان، ( ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ) قال: يرجع . حدثني يونس، قال: أخبرنا ابن وهب، قال: قال ابن زيد، في قوله: ( أَنْ لَنْ يَحُورَ ) قال: أن لن ينقلب .