Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 351

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

تَمْهِيدٌ: وَذَلِكَ قَبْلَ نُزُولِ التَّوْرَاةِ بِدَلِيلِ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ مِن بَعْدِ مَا أَهْلَكْنَا الْقُرُونَ الْأُولَى﴾.

Introduction: This was before the revelation of the Torah, as evidenced by the words of the Almighty: 'And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture after We had destroyed the former generations.'

كَمَا رَوَاهُ ابْنُ جَرِيرٍ وَابْنُ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ وَالْبَزَّارُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ عَوْفٍ الْأَعْرَابِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ: مَا أَهْلَكَ اللَّهُ قَوْمًا بِعَذَابٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَوْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ، بَعْدَمَا أُنْزِلَتِ التَّوْرَاةُ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ، غَيْرَ الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي مُسِخُوا قِرَدَةً.

This is as narrated by Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Hatim, and al-Bazzar from the hadith of 'Awf al-A'rabi, from Abu Nadra, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: 'God did not destroy any people with a punishment from the sky or from the earth after the Torah was revealed upon the face of the earth, except for the village whose inhabitants were transformed into monkeys.'

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: ﴿وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ مِن بَعْدِ مَا أَهْلَكْنَا الْقُرُونَ الْأُولَى﴾.

Do you not see that God Almighty says: 'And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture after We had destroyed the former generations?'

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Vocabulary · المفردات (10 verbs · 20 nouns)

• آتَى — to give
• أَهْلَكَ — to destroy
• رَوَى — to narrate
• تَمْهِيدٌ — introduction
• تَوْرَاةٌ — Torah
• دَلِيلٌ — evidence