Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ar-Room, Ayah 32
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of those mina’lladhīna is a substitution for al-mushrikīna ‘idolaters’ using the same operator of the oblique min who have divided up their religion by being at variance over what they worship and have become dissenting factions sects divided over this matter each party among them rejoicing delighting in what they have a variant reading for farraqū is fāraqū in other words ‘of those who have parted with the religion to which they have been commanded’.
Related Hadiths
Those who have made their Scripture into parts are the people of the Scripture who divided it into portions and believed in a part of it and disbelieved the other.
In the event of the dissension among Muslims an emerging sect will emerge ; one of the two parties that is nearer to the truth will kill it.
‘The Children of Israel split into seventy-one sects, and my nation will split into seventy-two, all of which will be in Hell apart from one, which is the main body.”
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Jews were split up into seventy-one or seventy-two sects; and the Christians were split up into seventy one or seventy-two sects; and my community will be split up into seven...
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The Jews split into seventy-one sects, or seventy-two sects, and the Christians similarly, and my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects."
“The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy in Hell. The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise. I s...
A group would secede itself (from the Ummah) when there would be dissension among the Muslims. Out of the two groups who would be nearer the truth would kill them.
“The Jews split into seventy-one sects and my nation will split into seventy-three sects.”
Mu`awiyah b. Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said: Beware! The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us and said: Beware! The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects, and this communi...
"A group will secede at a time of division among the people, and they will be killed by the group that is closer to the truth."
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Of those who split up their religion) they abandoned the religion of Islam (and became schismatics) they became different sects: Jews, Christians as well as all other sects, (each sect) the adherents of each sect (exulting in its tenets) fascinated with the religion they have, believing it to be the Truth.