If Anyone Slays a Person (Qur'an 5:32): Difference between revisions

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{{Quote|1=[http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=786&Itemid=60 Human Beings Should Respect the Sanctity of Other Human Beings]<BR>Tafsir Ibn Kathir|2=In addition, Ibn Jurayj said that Al-A`raj said that Mujahid commented on the Ayah, He who kills a '''believing soul''' intentionally, Allah makes the Fire of Hell his abode, He will become angry with him, and curse him, and has prepared a tremendous punishment for him, equal to if he had killed all people, his punishment will still be the same.}}
{{Quote|1=[http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=786&Itemid=60 Human Beings Should Respect the Sanctity of Other Human Beings]<BR>Tafsir Ibn Kathir|2=In addition, Ibn Jurayj said that Al-A`raj said that Mujahid commented on the Ayah, He who kills a '''believing soul''' intentionally, Allah makes the Fire of Hell his abode, He will become angry with him, and curse him, and has prepared a tremendous punishment for him, equal to if he had killed all people, his punishment will still be the same.}}


Muslim scholars consider Mujahid ibn Jabr to be a narrator of the highest reliability.<ref>"''....Mujahid ibn Jabr, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Makhzumi is one of the major commentators of Qur'an among the Tâbi'în and of the highest rank in reliability among hadith narrators (thiqa)....''" - Sh. G. F. Haddad - [http://www.livingislam.org/o/mujah_e.html Mujahid (d. 102)] - LivingIslam, April 4, 2000.</ref>  
Muslim scholars generally consider Mujahid ibn Jabr to be a narrator of the highest reliability.<ref>"''....Mujahid ibn Jabr, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Makhzumi is one of the major commentators of Qur'an among the Tâbi'în and of the highest rank in reliability among hadith narrators (thiqa)....''" - Sh. G. F. Haddad - [http://www.livingislam.org/o/mujah_e.html Mujahid (d. 102)] - LivingIslam, April 4, 2000.</ref>  


Ibn Abbas is also cited by ibn Kathir for this verse, giving the more general opinion, that it refers to the killing of a "soul that Allah has forbidden killing". Being a companion of Muhammad, Ibn Abbas was present around the time these verses were revealed. Together with ibn Jabr, he went through the Qur'an thirty times and memorized the meanings.
Ibn Abbas is also cited by ibn Kathir for this verse, giving the more general opinion, that it refers to the killing of a "soul that Allah has forbidden killing". Being a companion of Muhammad, Ibn Abbas was present around the time these verses were revealed. Together with ibn Jabr, he went through the Qur'an thirty times and memorized the meanings.
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