Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ("which weighed down your back"), he said: which burdened your back heavily.

   Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His statement: أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ * وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ * الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ("Have We not expanded for you your breast? And We removed from you your burden, which weighed down your back"): the Prophet ﷺ had committed sins which burdened him heavily, and Allah forgave them for him.

   Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His statement: أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ , he said: the Prophet had committed sins which burdened him heavily, and Allah forgave them for him.

   It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn, he said: I heard Abū Muʿādh say: ʿUbayd related to us, saying: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk say concerning His statement: وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ ("And We removed from you your burden"): he means: the associationism (shirk) in which he had been.

   Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning His statement: أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ * وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ , he said: He expanded his breast for him, and forgave him his sin which he had before he was made a prophet, and removed it from him.

   And concerning His statement: الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ he said: which burdened him heavily and exhausted him, just as the heavy load makes the camel groan, until it becomes a worn-out beast after having been fat. وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ he said: your sin which made your back groan, which burdened your back heavily, and that We removed from you, and We lightened for you that which had burdened your back heavily.

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   ( الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ) قال: أثقل ظهرك. حدثنا بشر، قال: ثنا يزيد، قال: ثنا سعيد، عن قتادة، قوله: ( أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ * وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ * الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ) : كانت للنبيّ صلى الله عليه وسلم &; 24-494 &; ذنوب قد أثقلته، فغفرها الله له. حدثنا ابن عبد الأعلى، قال: ثنا ابن ثور، عن معمر، عن قتادة، في قوله: ( أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ) قال: كانت للنبي: ذنوب قد أثقلته، فغفرها الله له. حُدثت عن الحسين، قال: سمعت أبا معاذ يقول: ثنا عبيد، قال: سمعت الضحاك يقول في قوله: ( وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ ) يعني: الشرك الذي كان فيه. حدثني يونس، قال: أخبرنا ابن وهب، قال: قال ابن زيد، في قوله: ( أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ * وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ) قال: شرح له صدرَه، وغفر له ذنبَه الذي كان قبل أن يُنَبأ، فوضعه. وفي قوله: ( الَّذِي أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ) قال: أثقله وجهده، كما يُنْقِضُ البعيرَ حِمْلُه الثقيل، حتى يصير نِقضا بعد أن كان سمينا( وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ ) قال: ذنبك الذي أنقض ظهرَك، أثقل ظهرك، ووضعناه عنك، وخفَّفنا عنك ما أثقل ظهرَك.