This locus gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

{وَمَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ أَنْ يَغُلَّ…}

Brief reading

Shahrur places it within the framework of a specific historical event, not a permanent legislation, relying on the transmitted reason for revelation and then rereading it.

Loci

  • Narrative and historical
  • Methodological
  • Denial of embezzlement: 2
  • Reason for revelation: 1
  • Historical event: 1
  • Prophetic narrative: 1

Its place in the network of concepts

It is linked to a critique of projecting the historical story onto the general ruling.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Critique of the tradition: 1

Uses

  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 115: He mentions the transmitted reason for revelation and then builds on it that the verse relates to a historical event within the prophetic narrative, not to a permanent legislation.
    • Concept: denial of embezzlement
    • Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
    • Textual evidence: «{وَمَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ أَنْ يَغُلَّ…} Al Imran 161, it is reported from Ibn Abbas and Said ibn Jubayr that it was revealed concerning a red cloak that went missing on the day of Badr from the spoils of war»
    • Counter-traditional reading: the view attributed to the Prophet that he took the cloak, or understanding it as denying the event with respect to him
  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna

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