Question text
Which verse has been omitted from Bayyinah Surah according to Abi ibn Ka’b’s opinion?
Answer
Ahmad and Tirmizi and Hakim have quoted from Abi ibn Ka’b in Tafsir al-Durr al-Manthur that he said:
“the Prophet (s.a.w.) said: God ordered me to recite this verse for you,﴿لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا﴾
(1)(“Those who disbelieved from among the followers”)
then he said that God states: if son of Adam asks for a desert among temporal properties and I give it to him, he will ask for next deserts, because the belly of Adam’s son will be filled with nothing but earth, but anyone who repents, Gad will accept his repentance, surely, the primordial religion of Islam is the real religion from God, not polytheism nor Judaism and Christianity. If anyone accepts this religion, he will not profane God”. (2)
Ahmad also quotes from Abi ibn Ka’b that:
“Abi ibn Ka’b said that: the Prophet (s.a.w.) told me: God ordered me to recite these verses for you,﴿لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا...﴾﴿إِلَّا مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ﴾
(3)(“Those who disbelieved from among the followers”… “after clear evidence had come to them”.)
When the Prophet (s.a.w.) recited these verses, he said that: the primordial religion of Islam is the real religion from God, not polytheism nor Judaism and Christianity.”
Shu’bah says: “then the Prophet (s.a.w.) recited next verses and said that: if son of Adam had two deserts from the world, he would ask for next desert, because the belly of Adam’s son will be filled with nothing but earth, after that he recited the rest of verses and finished the Surah”. (4)
According to both narrations which have been quoted from Abi ibn Ka’b by the great Sunni scholars, such as Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Hakim who has confirmed the authenticity of the first narration in his Mustadrak that: “some verses have been added to the Bayyibah Surah, if this matter is true, these verses have been omitted from this Surah”. (5)
resources and references
1- Quran, Al-Bayyinah, verse. 1.
2- Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, vol. 1, p. 131 ; al-Durr al-Manthur, vol. 6, p. 387, Tafsir Bayyinah Surah.
3- Quran, Al-Bayyinah, verse. 4.
4- Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, vol. 5, p. 132 ; al-Durr al-Manthur, vol. 6, p. 641, Tafsir Bayyinah Surah.
5- Tahiri Khurram Abadi, the Absence of Distortion in the Quran, pp. 66-67.
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