1 The Virtues of Surah Al-Ma'idah; When It was Revealed Surah to ...

وَال َّذِینَ‏ یَنقُضُونَ‏ عَهْدَ‏ اللّهِ‏ مِن بَعْدِ‏ مِيثَاقِهِ‏ وَیَقْطَعُونَ‏ مَآ أَمَرَ‏ اللّهُ‏
بِهِ‏ أَن یُوصَلَ‏ وَیُفْسِدُونَ‏ فِي الأَرْضِ‏ أُوْلَئِكَ‏ لَهُمُ‏ الل َّعْنَةُ‏ وَلَهُمْ‏
سُوءُ‏ الد َّارِ‏
And those who break the covenant of Allah, after
its ratification, and sever that which Allah has
commanded to be joined, and work mischief in
the land, on them is the curse, and for them is
the unhappy (evil) home (i.e. Hell). (13:25)"
Ad-Dahhak said that, أَوْفُواْ‏ بِالْعُقُودِ‏ (Fulfill your obligations),
"Refers to what Allah has permitted and what He
has prohibited. Allah has taken the covenant from
those who proclaim their faith in the Prophet and
the Book to fulfill the obligations that He has
ordered for them in the permissible and the
impermissible.''
Explaining the Lawful and the Unlawful Beasts
Allah said,
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أُحِل َّتْ‏ لَكُم بَهِيمَةُ‏ الأَنْعَامِ‏
Lawful to you (for food) are all the beasts of cattle,
camels, cows and sheep, as Al-Hasan, Qatadah
and several others stated.
Ibn Jarir said that this Tafsir conforms to the meaning of
(`beasts of cattle') that the Arabs had.
We should mention that Ibn Umar, Ibn Abbas and others
relied on this Ayah as evidence to allow eating the meat
of the fetus if it is found dead in the belly of its
slaughtered mother.
There is a Hadith to the same effect collected in the
Sunan of Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah and
narrated by Abu Sa`id who said,
"We asked, `O Messenger of Allah! When we
slaughter a camel, cow or sheep, we sometimes
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