Abu Zakariya
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Re: Understanding Al-Maeda 43-48
I thought I'd interfere here and quote an answer to one of my questions to the IslamToday team:
Allah knows best the degree of corruption in the Bible.
However, in another hadîth, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whatever the People of the Book tell you, neither believe them nor deny what they say, but rather say: ‘I believe in Allah and His Messengers.’ For if it is something false, you will not be believing it, and if it is something true, you will not be denying it.” [Sunan Abî Dâwûd (3644) and Musnad Ahmad (16597)]
Al-Tabarî relates in his Tafsîr from Ibn `Abbâs the context in which this verse was revealed:
Râfi` b. Hârithah, Salâm b. Mishkum, Mâlik b. al-Sayf, and Râfi` b. Huraymilah approached Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and said: “O Muhammad! Don’t you claim to be from the community and faith of Abraham and to believe in the Torah that we possess and witness that it is the truth from Allah?”
Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) replied: “Certainly. However you introduced to it new things and disputed what it contains of the covenant that was taken upon you. You concealed of it what you were supposed to convey to the people. I am innocent of the new things that you have contrived.”
They said: “Then we will keep to what our hands possess, for indeed, we are upon the truth. We do not believe in you and will not follow you.”
Thereupon, Allah revealed: “Say: ‘O People of the Scripture! You are upon nothing until you observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed to you from your Lord.’ That which is revealed unto you (O Muhammad) from your Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them. But grieve not for the disbelieving folk.” [Sûrah al-Mâ’idah: 68]
This is also related by Ibn Abî Hâtim in his Tafsîr.
And Allah knows best.
I thought I'd interfere here and quote an answer to one of my questions to the IslamToday team:
Allah knows best the degree of corruption in the Bible.
However, in another hadîth, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whatever the People of the Book tell you, neither believe them nor deny what they say, but rather say: ‘I believe in Allah and His Messengers.’ For if it is something false, you will not be believing it, and if it is something true, you will not be denying it.” [Sunan Abî Dâwûd (3644) and Musnad Ahmad (16597)]
Al-Tabarî relates in his Tafsîr from Ibn `Abbâs the context in which this verse was revealed:
Râfi` b. Hârithah, Salâm b. Mishkum, Mâlik b. al-Sayf, and Râfi` b. Huraymilah approached Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and said: “O Muhammad! Don’t you claim to be from the community and faith of Abraham and to believe in the Torah that we possess and witness that it is the truth from Allah?”
Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) replied: “Certainly. However you introduced to it new things and disputed what it contains of the covenant that was taken upon you. You concealed of it what you were supposed to convey to the people. I am innocent of the new things that you have contrived.”
They said: “Then we will keep to what our hands possess, for indeed, we are upon the truth. We do not believe in you and will not follow you.”
Thereupon, Allah revealed: “Say: ‘O People of the Scripture! You are upon nothing until you observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed to you from your Lord.’ That which is revealed unto you (O Muhammad) from your Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them. But grieve not for the disbelieving folk.” [Sûrah al-Mâ’idah: 68]
This is also related by Ibn Abî Hâtim in his Tafsîr.
And Allah knows best.