JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

The
traditionist
(CL/PCL)
Al-Ḥasan al-
Baṣrī (d.
110/728)
Qatāda b.
Diʿāma (d.
JAIS
117/735)
Saʿīd b. Abī
ʿArūba (d.
ONLINE
156/772)
Pavel Pavlovitch
The reconstructed wording of the CL/PCL Remarks
The non-revelation cluster The revelation cluster
(1) Unzilat “Qurʾān 4:15” fa-lammā rufiʿa l-waḥy u qāla rasūl u l-lāh i ,
ṣalʿam: (2) “Khudhū-hunna! Iqbalū-hunna!”
Al-Ḥasan’s exegetical
tradition in its original form
(1) “Khudhū ʿan-nī! (2) Qad
jaʿala l-lāh u la-hunna sabīl an .
(3a) Al-thayyib u bi-l-thayyib
(3b) wa-l-bikr u bi-l-bikr (4a)
Al-thayyib u jald u miʾat in
thumm a rajm un bi-l-ḥijāra
(4b) wa-l-bikr u jald u miʾat in
thumm a nafy u sana.”
OR
Anna l-nabiyy a , ṣalʿam, unzila ʿalay-hi in a
volatile conjunction with the dual-penalty
maxim
OR
(1a) Kāna rasūl u l-lāh i , ṣalʿam, idhā
nazala/nuzzila ʿalay-hi kuriba li-dhālika watarabbada
la-hu wajh u -hu (1b) fanazala/nuzzila
ʿalay-hi dhat a yawm in fa-laqiya
dhālika fa-lammā surriya ʿan-hu qāla: (2)
“Khudhū ʿan-nī! (3) Qad jaʿala l-lāh u lahunna
sabīl an . (4a) Al-bikr u bi-l-bikr i jald u
miʾat in wa-nafy u sana (4b) wa-l-thayyib u bi-lthayyib
i jald u miʾat in wa-l-rajm.”
Al-Ḥasan most likely
circulated an exegetical
tradition in which he voiced
his opinion that sexual
offenders should be punished
in accordance with Qurʾān
4:15.
Ibn Abī ʿArūba’s matn most
likely excluded the revelation
preamble.
The preamble attributed to Ibn
Abī ʿArūba is composed of
fictional elements borrowed
from the generic descriptions
of the theophany.
The penal maxim attributed to
Ibn Abī ʿArūba draws on
features specific of the nonrevelation
traditions of Shuʿba
and al-Qaṭṭān.
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