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
Related concepts
- 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
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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