Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿᾹshūr says:
في تالوة هذه اآلية عوضا عن ذلك السب دقيقة،‏ إنها تقتضي النهي عن ذلك السب إذ هو من الفحشاء
والمنكر والبغي
In supplanting that revilement with the recitation of this verse there was an
intricate indication; the verse entailed the prohibition of that revilement
due to it being immorality, bad conduct and oppression. 1
Even some Shīʿah poets have acknowledged this feat of ʿUmar and have
extolled him for it in a poem:
وليت فلم تشتم عليا ولم تخف
بريئا،‏ ولم تقبل إشارة مجرم
You assumed leadership and subsequent to that you did not revile ʿAlī, you
did not intimidate an innocent person and you did not accept the council
of a sinner. 2
Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī 3 likewise says the following, despite being very vocal
about the impressions the Alawids had regarding the Umayyads:
يا بن عبد العزيز لو بكت العي
ن فتى من أمية لبكيتك
1 Al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr 13/259.
2 Dīwān Kuthayr ʿAzzah p. 310.
For more details see: Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 5/322; al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 5/393; Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī 2/305; al-
Muntaẓam 7/40; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 50/92; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 4/315; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 5/147;
al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/252; Ma ʾāthir al-Ināqah 1/144.
3 Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā al-Mūsawī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī. The leader of the
Alawids who was famously known as al-Sharīf al-Raḍī. A prominent Shīʿī scholar and an outstanding
poet. He was born in 359 A.H. al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī said regarding him, “He was from the people of
virtue, literature and knowledge.” He passed away in 406 A.H. and was buried in his house in Baghdad.
He has written: Kitāb fī Maʿānī al-Qurʾān, and a voluminous compilation of poetry. See: Tārīkh Baghdād
2/246; al-ʿIbar fī Khabar man Ghabar 3/97; al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah 4/240; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 3/182.
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