Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Aal-i-Imraan, Ayah 95
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(Say) O Muhammad: (Allah speaketh truth) when He said Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian; it is also said this means: Say, O Muhammad, Allah has said the Truth regarding what He stated concerning that which is lawful and that which is unlawful. (So follow the religion of Abraham, the upright) i.e. the Muslim. (He was not of the idolaters) who followed their Religion.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Say ‘God has spoken the truth in this matter just as He has in all that He has related; therefore follow the creed of Abraham the one which I follow a hanīf inclining away from all religions towards submission islām and he was not an idolater’.