Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 658

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الرِّجَالُ ، فَاكْتُبْهَا لَنَا وَكَانَ أَبُوهُ سَرُوخَا قَدْ دَفَنَ التَّوْرَاةَ أَيَّامَ بُخْتَنَصَّرَ فِي مَوْضِعٍ لَمْ يَعْرِفْهُ أَحَدٌ غَيْرُ عُزَيْرٍ ، فَانْطَلَقَ بِهِمْ إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْمَوْضِعِ فَحَفَرَهُ فَاسْتَخْرَجَ التَّوْرَاةَ وَكَانَ قَدْ عَفِنَ الْوَرَقُ وَدَرَسَ الْكِتَابُ.

The men said, 'Write it down for us.' His father, Sarukha, had buried the Torah during the days of Nebuchadnezzar in a place that no one knew except Ezra, so he went with them to that place, dug it up, and retrieved the Torah, though the paper had rotted and the writing had faded.

قَالَ : وَجَلَسَ فِي ظِلِّ شَجَرَةٍ وَبَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ حَوْلَهُ فَجَدَّدَ لَهُمُ التَّوْرَاةَ وَنَزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ شِهَابَانِ حَتَّى دَخَلَا جَوْفَهُ

He said: He sat in the shade of a tree with the Children of Israel around him, and he renewed the Torah for them, and two meteors descended from the sky until they entered his body.

فَتَذَكَّرَ التَّوْرَاةَ فَجَدَّدَهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ ، فَمِنْ ثَمَّ قَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ : عُزَيْرٌ ابْنُ اللَّهِ ، لِلَّذِي كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الشِّهَابَيْنِ وَتَجْدِيدِهِ التَّوْرَاةَ وَقِيَامِهِ بِأَمْرِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ ، وَكَانَ جَدَّدَ لَهُمُ التَّوْرَاةَ بِأَرْضِ السَّوَادِ بِدَيْرِ حِزْقِيلَ ، وَالْقَرْيَةُ الَّتِي مَاتَ يُقَالُ لَهَا سَايَرُ ابَاذَ.

He remembered the Torah and renewed it for the Children of Israel; hence the Jews said, 'Ezra is the son of God,' because of what happened with the two meteors, his renewal of the Torah, and his taking charge of the affairs of the Children of Israel. He had renewed the Torah for them in the land of As-Sawad at the Monastery of Ezekiel, and the village where he died is called Sayer Abadh.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (27 verbs · 46 nouns)

• كَتَبَ — to write
• دَفَنَ — to bury
• عَرَفَ — to know
• رَجُلٌ — man
• أَبٌ — father
• تَوْرَاةٌ — Torah