altering Allah’s creation.’ He explained: ‘No altering Allah’s religion.’”

He narrated from ‘Abd Allāh ibn Idrīs, from Layth, who said:

“Mujāhid sent a man called Qāsim to ‘Ikrimah to ask him about the words, ‘There is no altering Allah’s creation.’ ‘Ikrimah replied, ‘This refers to castration.’ He returned to Mujāhid, who said, ‘He was mistaken. “There is no altering Allah’s creation” refers only to religion.’ He then recited: ‘There is no altering Allah’s creation. That is the upright religion.’”

He narrated from Wakī‘, from Nasr ibn ‘Arabī, from ‘Ikrimah, who explained, “There is no altering Allah’s creation” as “No altering Allah’s religion.”

He also narrated from Husayn ibn Wāqid, from Yazīd al-Nahwī, that ‘Ikrimah said concerning “Allah’s natural disposition with which He created mankind”: “Islam.” Likewise, he narrated from Wakī‘, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Layth, that Mujāhid said: “No altering Allah’s religion.”

He narrated from Sa‘īd, from Qatādah, who explained, “There is no altering Allah’s creation” as “No altering Allah’s religion.”