Note: Under I made a short list of authors who repeated this text.

 

Ibn Qutayba (880) aliakhtilaf fi allafz walradi ealaa aljihmiat walmushbihih

(Difference in pronunciation and response to the Jahmiyyah and the Mushabbah)

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Taken from: المجلس الشرعي العام (General Sharia Council) ـ [أرشيف منتدى الألوكة - ١] [Alouka Forum Archive - 1] [عبدالله الشهري] ــــــــ [٢٤ - Mar-٢٠٠٨, صباحاً ١٢:١٤] - [Abdullah Al-Shehri] - [24 - Mar-2008, AM 12:14] -

 

Ibn Qutaybah al-Dinawari in his treatise called (The Difference in Pronunciation and the Response to the Jahmiyyah and the Mushhabah), in which he says, speaking about God’s destiny in people and their misery and happiness: And among them are people to whom God sent down to the ends of the earth and the barrenness of the land, and humiliated them, made them naked, distorted their character, and blackened their colours. He gave them to drink brackish salt and made insects and plants their sustenance, and robbed them of their intellects and distanced them from the sending of messengers and the end of the call, so they are like cattle, nay, they are further astray from the path. Then He made them a gravel for Hell and its fires fuel like the Zanj and many types of Sudanese and types of foreigners and Gog and Magog. So do these people have the right to protest against God for what He granted others and withheld from them?

 

Ibn al Jawzi: Zad Al-Masir (Increased Knowledge) (d1200)

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Taken from:   islamicbook.ws  زاد المسير في علم التفسير

 

Then he followed a way until it reached sunrise and he found it looking at a people, they did not possess anything.

God Almighty said: (Then he followed a way) i.e. another road that would lead him to the east. Qatada said: He went on opening cities and gathering treasures and killing men except for those who were safe, until he came to the dawn of the sun and hit a flock of naked people, who had no food except when the sun burned it when it rose, and when it was in the middle of the sky, they came out of their shelters to seek their livelihood from what the sun had burned. We are informed that they were in a place on where no structure can be established, so it is said: They are the Zinj. Al-Hassan said: When the sun went down, they would do the same as the beast. Al-Hassan, Mujahid, Abu Majlaz, Abu Rajaa, and Ibn Muhaisan said: The rising sun.

 

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: Mafatih al-Ghayb (Keys to the Unknown) (1209) (Persia)

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Taken from: islamicbook.ws   مفاتيح الغيب

 

……………. so God Almighty indicated that He found the sun rising on a people we did not make for them any covering and it has two sayings. The first is that there are no trees, mountains, or buildings that prevent the sun’s rays from falling on them. For this reason, if the sun rises, they enter into the ground or dive into the water, so when the sun rises, it is impossible for them to get out and when it sets, they work to collect the food. Other conditions the ethics and the second saying is that it means that they have no clothes and they are like all animals naked. It is said in the authority’s books that the condition of most Zinj is the same, and that of everyone who lives in countries close to the equator …………………

 

Ibn Abd al-Salam: Tafsir ibn Abd al Salam (Interpretation of Ibn Abd al-Salam) (d1262)

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Taken from: islamicbook.ws   تفسير ابن عبد السلام 

 

Even when he reached the dawn of the sun and found her looking over a people, we did not put a cover for them without her (Verse from the Coran)

There is a start and end of (the places where are) building, or trees, or clothing. If they come out from among their people, they go out to hunt and fish that they eat. It was said: They are the Zinj.

 

Al-Qurtubi; Tafsir al-Qurtubi (Commentary by Al-Qurtubi) (13^th)

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Taken from: Africanism; Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary by Nader Kadhem 2023

 

In interpreting the people mentioned in the Quranic verse “Until, when he came to the rising of the sun [i.e., the east], he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield”

(Quran 18:90), Qatada says: They are called the Zanj, they are Taris, Haweel and Mensek, barefoot, naked, and blind to the truth. They have intercourse publicly like dogs and donkeys.

 

Ibn Kathir: Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim (Commentary of the Qur'an) 1373

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Taken from: islamicbook.ws   غرائب القرآن ورغائب الفرقان

 

Abdul Razzaq said: Muammar told us, on the authority of Qatada, in his saying: He found her looking over a people without anything not even a cover for them. He said: They are the Zinj.

 

Ibn Makhlouf Al-Thaalabi: aljawahir alhussan; (Good Gems) (1470)

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Taken from:  islamicbook.ws   الجواهر الحسان في تفسير القرآن

 

He made it a sermon and a verse to others, and in this sense he has many news and oddities that are mentioned in history books and his saying and he found them looking at the people who are the Zinj. Ibn Qatada said: they are from the Indians and those who live behind them, and the people said in his saying, Glory be to Him, that we have not been made one of them who are without cover, meaning that they have no houses because their land cannot bear construction, but rather they enter from the heat of the sun into the sea water. This is an eloquent statement about the proximity of the sun to them, …….

 

Suyuti: Tafsir ul-Jalalain (or Jalaluddin), (Commentary on the Quran) (d1505)

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Taken from: A comprehensive commentary on the Qurán: comprising Sale's ..., By Elwood Morris Wherry, George Sale

 

Begun by Jalfll ud-Din ul-Maljalli (1389-1459) and finished by Suyuti Commentary on the following part of the 18th chapter of the Koran:

Then he continued his way,  until he came to the place where the sun riseth; and he found it to rise on certain people, unto whom we had not given anything wherewith to shelter themselves therefrom.  Thus it was; and we comprehended with our knowledge the forces which were with him. And he prosecuted his journey from south to north.

Jalaluddin al Suyuti says they were the Zanj, a black nation lying south-west of Ethiopia. They seem to be the Troglodytes of the ancients.

 

Suyuti: Mufhimat-il-Qur'an fi Mubhimat-il-Quran: (The decisive centuries in the composition of the Quran) (d1505)

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Taken from: maktabatalarab.com

 

From the Koran: And found it rising (the sun) on a people that Allah has given nothing.

Qatada said: It is said that they are the Zinj. Narrated by Abdul Razzak.