The Crucifixion and the Qur'an by Lawson Todd.;

Author:Lawson, Todd.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780746753
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)

AL-ṬŪSĪ (d. 460/1067)

With this scholar, we now begin the examination of what has come to be known as classical Shi‘i tafsīr. However, as we have seen, much exegetical effort had already been expended on this verse within the greater Shi‘i community. With Abū Ja‘far al-Ṭūsī, one of the founding fathers of Twelver Shi‘i doctrine, there is considerable, and frequently original, commentary on our verse. He begins by citing the familiar tradition from Wahb we found in al-Ṭabarī’s tafsīr, adding that Qatāda, al-Suddī, Ibn Isḥāq, Mujāhid and Ibn Jurayj all disagree about the number of disciples. Nor, he points out, do they mention the tradition, related by Wahb, in which the likeness was cast upon all of the disciples, and asserts that the likeness was cast upon only one. Al-Ṭūsī then goes on to say that one of the disciples, Būdis Zakariyya Būta (i.e. Judas), pointed Jesus out to the Jews, but later repented and hanged himself. He notes that some Christians say that this Būdis was the one on whom the likeness was cast and who was ultimately crucified. Al-Ṭūsī repeats al-Ṭabarī’s assessment of Wahb’s account: the likeness was cast upon all the disciples and thus the matter was obscured for everyone involved. However, he introduces a new element to this tafsīr by citing the famous Mu‘tazilī, al-Jubbā’ī (probably père: Abū Hāshim ‘Abd al-Salām, d. 303/915):

The meaning of the error (wajh al-tashbīh) is that the leaders of the Jews took a man, killed him and crucified him on a hill. They prevented anyone from examining him until his body had decomposed beyond recognition. Then they claimed they had killed Jesus; thus they misled their people because they were afraid that if the Jews knew that Jesus had been raised by God from the house that they had entered in order to arrest him, that this divine intervention would cause the Jews to believe in Jesus. Those who crucified this man were not the ones who disagreed about it. (Ibid., p. 383)

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