Sirat Ibn Hisham 642
What was revealed concerning their statement: 'None but the wicked among us have believed'
[ مَا نَزَلَ فِي قَوْلِهِمْ مَا آمَنَ إلَّا شِرَارُنَا ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَلَمَّا أَسْلَمَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ، وَثَعْلَبَةُ بْنُ سَعْيَةَ، وَأُسَيْدُ بْنُ سَعْيَةَ. وَأَسَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ. وَمَنْ أَسْلَمَ مِنْ يَهُودَ مَعَهُمْ. فَآمَنُوا وَصَدَّقُوا وَرَغِبُوا فِي الْإِسْلَامِ. وَرَسَخُوا فِيهِ، قَالَتْ أَحْبَارُ يَهُودَ، أَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ مِنْهُمْ: مَا آمَنَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَلَا اتَّبَعَهُ إلَّا شِرَارُنَا، وَلَوْ كَانُوا مِنْ أَخْيَارِنَا مَا تَرَكُوا دِينَ آبَائِهِمْ وَذَهَبُوا إلَى غَيْرِهِ. فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ قَوْلِهِمْ: لَيْسُوا سَوَاءً مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ أُمَّةٌ قَائِمَةٌ يَتْلُونَ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَهُمْ يَسْجُدُونَ. [ تَفْسِيرُ ابْنِ هِشَامٍ لِبَعْضِ الْغَرِيبِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ: سَاعَاتِ اللَّيْلِ: وَوَاحِدُهَا: إنْيٌ. قَالَ الْمُتَنَخِّلُ الْهُذَلِيُّ، وَاسْمُهُ مَالِكُ بْنُ عُوَيْمِرٍ، يَرْثِي أُثَيْلَةَ ابْنَهُ:: حُلْوٌ وَمُرٌّ كَعَطْفِ الْقِدْحِ شِيمَتُهُ فِي كُلِّ إنْيٍ قَضَاهُ اللَّيْلُ يَنْتَعِلُ وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ. وَقَالَ لَبِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ، يَصِفُ حِمَارَ وَحْشٍ:: يُطَرِّبُ آنَاءَ النَّهَارِ كَأَنَّهُ غَوِيٌّ سَقَاهُ فِي التِّجَارِ نَدِيمُ وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ، وَيُقَالُ: إنًى ( مَقْصُورٌ )، فِيمَا أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ. يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَيُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ وَأُولَئِكَ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
Translation
✧ [What was revealed concerning their saying: 'None believed but the worst of us'] Ibn Isḥāq said: When ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām, Thaʿlabah b. Saʿyah, Usayd b. Saʿyah, Asad b. ʿUbayd, and those Jews who accepted Islam with them embraced Islam, they believed, affirmed the truth, desired Islam, and became firmly established in it. The rabbis of the Jews, the people of disbelief among them, said: 'None believed in Muḥammad ﷺ and followed him but the worst of us. Had they been of the best of us, they would not have abandoned the religion of their forefathers and gone to other than it.' So God, exalted is He, sent down concerning that saying of theirs: 'They are not all alike. Among the People of the Scripture is an upright community who recite the verses of God during the hours of the night and prostrate.' [Ibn Hishām's explanation of some rare words] Ibn Hishām said: 'ānāʾ al-layl' means the hours of the night; its singular is 'iny'. Al-Mutanakhkhil al-Hudhalī, whose name is Mālik b. ʿUwaymir, said in mourning for his son Uthaylah: Ḥulwun wa-murrun ka-ʿaṭfi l-qidḥi shīmatuhū fī kulli inyin qaḍāhu l-laylu yantaʿilu This verse is from a poem of his. Labīd b. Rabīʿah said, describing a wild ass: Yuṭarribu ānāʾa l-nahāri kaʾannahū ghawiyyun saqāhu fī l-tijāri nadīmu This verse is from a poem of his. It is also said: 'inan' (shortened), according to what Yūnus informed me. 'They believe in God and the Last Day, enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and hasten to good deeds. Those are among the righteous.'
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