170 - Chapter on the Sending of the Bringers of Glad Tidings

2772 - Abū Tawbah al-Rabīʿ ibn Nāfiʿ narrated to us, ʿĪsā narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl, from Qays.

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It was also recorded by al-Ṭabarī in his "Tafsīr" 10/143 from Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī, from Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ, from al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid, from Yazīd al-Naḥwī, from ʿIkrimah and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, both of them saying it. And Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd is abandoned (matrūk).

It was also recorded by Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām in "al-Nāsikh wa al-Mansūkh" (357), and Ibn al-Jawzī, p. 367, via the path of Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad, from Ibn Jurayj (and Abū ʿUbayd paired with him ʿUthmān ibn ʿAṭāʾ), from ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī, from Ibn ʿAbbās. And ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī did not hear from Ibn ʿAbbās.

It was also recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (2414) via the path of Yūnus ibn Rāshid, from ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās.

There has come from Ibn ʿAbbās something that contradicts that, indicating the absence of abrogation (naskh), namely what Abū ʿUbayd (356) and al-Ṭabarī 10/143 recorded via the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, the scribe of al-Layth, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding His saying: {Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask your permission} [al-Tawbah: 45]. He said: This is a rebuke of the hypocrites when they asked his permission to remain behind from jihad without any excuse, and Allah excused the believers, saying: {And when they are with him on a matter requiring collective action, they do not go until they ask his permission} [al-Nūr: 62].

It was also recorded by al-Naḥḥās in "al-Nāsikh wa al-Mansūkh," p. 202, via the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, but he made it a statement of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥah!

The view that there is no abrogation and that both verses are definitive was held by al-Ṭabarī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Naḥḥās, and Ibn al-Jawzī, and Ibn al-Jawzī related it from Abū Sulaymān al-Dimashqī.

Ibn al-Jawzī said in "Nawāsikh al-Qurʾān," p. 368: The correct view is that abrogation has no place here, because it is possible to act upon both verses. That is because He only censured the hypocrites for asking his permission to remain behind from jihad without any excuse, and He permitted the believers to ask permission when a need arose for them. The hypocrites, when they were with him and a need arose for them, would leave without asking his permission.