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Ibn ʿAbbās said: Indecency among acts of disobedience is that for which a fixed legal penalty is obligatory, while evil among sins is that for which there is no fixed legal penalty. Al-Suddī said: It is adultery. It was also said: It is miserliness. “And that you say about Allah what you do not know”: such as declaring crops and livestock forbidden.
عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: الْفَحْشَاءُ مِنَ الْمَعَاصِي مَا يَجِبُ فِيهِ الْحَدُّ وَالسُّوءُ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ مَا لَا حَدَّ فِيهِ. وَقَالَ السُّدِّيُّ: هِيَ الزِّنَا وَقِيلَ هِيَ الْبُخْلُ ﴿وَأَنْ تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ﴾ تَحْرِيمُ الْحَرْثِ وَالْأَنْعَامِ.