Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-1354b

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"From 'Ali who said: When Musa hastened to his Lord, the Samiri set about gathering whatever he could of the jewelry of the Children of Israel, and he fashioned it into a calf, then he cast a handful into its belly, and it became a calf with a body that lowed. The Samiri said to them: {This is your god and the god of Musa} (Quran 20:88). Harun said to them: {O my people, did your Lord not promise you a good promise?} (Quran 20:86). When Musa returned, he seized his brother by the head, and Harun told him what had happened. Musa said to the Samiri: What is your affair? He said: {I grasped a handful from the trace of the messenger, and I threw it, and thus my soul prompted me} (Quran 20:96). Musa then went to the calf, placed files upon it and ground it down with them, while it was on the bank of a river. No one who had worshipped that calf drank from that water without his face turning yellow like gold. They said to Musa: What is our repentance? He said: Let some of you kill others. They took knives, and a man began to kill his brother, his father and his son, not caring whom he killed, until seventy thousand of them had been killed. Allah revealed to Musa: Tell them to raise their hands, for I have forgiven those who were killed and I have accepted the repentance of those who remain."

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