as in the words of Allah Most High:

“The Jews say, ‘Ezra is the son of Allah,’ while the Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’”

[Surah al-Tawba: 30]

“The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is fettered.’ Their own hands are fettered!”

[Surah al-Mā'ida: 64]

Not every Jew said this; rather, only some of them did (1).

(2 Likewise, Allah Most High says:

“Those to whom people said, ‘Indeed, the people have gathered against you, so fear them.’”

[Surah Āl Imrān: 173]

What is meant is people as a class; for it is known that the one who said this to them was different from the one who had mustered the forces and from those addressed, against whom the forces had been mustered. 2) (2).

[What he mentioned is found among the Rāfida.] (3) Indeed, they have many times more than what was mentioned (4), such as some of them prohibiting goose and camel meat (5) in imitation of the Jews; their invariably combining two prayers, so that they pray only at three times, in imitation of the Jews; and their claim that divorce does not take effect unless the husband’s divorce is witnessed (6), in imitation of the Jews. Other examples include their deeming the bodies of other Muslims and the People of the Book impure; prohibiting animals slaughtered by them; deeming impure (7) any water or other liquid that comes into contact with them; and washing vessels from which others have eaten, in imitation of the Samaritans (8), who are the worst of the Jews. For this reason, people place them among