What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The witness attributes to Shahrur the following delimitation of the verse’s scope: “The verse on retaliation in al-Baqarah concerns the circumstances of clan/tribal and collective fighting, not individual killing, which other verses address.”
Atlas Explanation
This atom records that the reading does not generalize the verse on retaliation to every form of killing, but restricts it to a context of collective killing connected with clan or tribal fighting. This explanation does not mean that the terms killing and fighting are synonymous; rather, it describes the restriction stated in the witness itself.
For reading in the broader framework: Muhammad Shahrur the Book and the Qur’an, Legislation, limits, and prohibition, fighting.
Conclusion
Within the limits of the witness, this restriction entails that identifying the type and context of the killing incident is a prerequisite for subsuming it under the verse on retaliation in this reading. Accordingly, under this understanding attributed to Shahrur, the verse alone cannot be made into a comprehensive ruling for both individual and collective killing.
Open Question and Limits of the Evidence
The witness does not identify the other verses that it says address individual killing, nor does it present the detailed line of reasoning that distinguishes between the two cases. Moreover, the verbatim text of the witness is unavailable in the context of the full source, despite its being recorded as a verified witness; its original location in the book must therefore be retrieved before expanding the claim or deriving detailed legislative conclusions from it.
Existing connection in the source structure: Abrogation does not occur within the Muhammadan message but pertains to the earlier messages.
the Book and the Qur’an · Abrogation does not occur within the Muhammadan message but pertains to the earlier messages