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A Jew is instructed to say, “By Allah who revealed the Torah to Moses, parted the sea for him, and saved him1 from Pharaoh and his chiefs.”
A Christian2 is instructed to say, “By Allah who revealed the Gospel to Jesus and enabled him to raise the dead and heal the congenitally blind and the leper.”3
One who refuses this intensification of the oath is not thereby deemed to have refused to swear at all.
If the judge considers it best to forgo the intensified wording and does so, he is correct.
(1) In manuscript A the reading is “najah.”
(2) In manuscript A the reading is “al-nasarani” (the Christian).
(3) Al-Mubdiʿ, 6/53, observes that the wording seems to require this intensified oath from every Christian, yet this is problematic: some Christians do not regard ʿIsa (Jesus) as the Messenger of Allah but rather as Allah’s son—far exalted is He above that claim. Employing an oath formula that strips the statement of its very character as an oath, let alone as a solemn one, is therefore questionable.
ويقول اليهودي: "والله الذي أنزل التوراة على موسى وفلق له البحر وأنجاه١ من فرعون وملائه".
ويقول النصراني٢: "والله الذي أنزل الإنجيل على عيسى وجعله يحيي الموتى ويبرئ الأكمه والأبرص"٣.
ومن أبى التغليظ لم يكن ناكلا.
وإن رأى الحاكم ترك التغليظ فتركه كان مصيبا.
١ في "أ" "نجاه".
٢ في "أ" "النصاراني".
٣ قال في المبدع "٦/٥٣" ظاهرة أنها تغلظ في حق كل نصراني بذلك وفيه إشكال لأن منهم من لا يعتقد أن عيسى رسول الله وإنما يعتقدونه ابناً لله تعالى عن ذلك فتغليظ اليمين بما يؤدي إلى خروج اليمين عن أن تكون يميناً فضلا عن أن تكون مغلظة.