| There is a tradition related by 'Aufi in which he cites a saying of Ibn 'Abbas to this effect: "This event happened after the destruction of Pharaoh when Prophet Moses had settled his people in Egypt" | '' Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn Abbas said that; it means a lifetime |
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| Melayu - Basmeih : Dan ingatkanlah peristiwa ketika Nabi Musa berkata kepada temannya "Aku tidak akan berhenti berjalan sehingga aku sampai di tempat pertemuan dua laut itu atau aku berjalan terus bertahuntahun"• until I reach the junction of the two seas, meaning, the place where the two seas met | On the basis of these two things, we are of the opinion and correct Knowledge is with Allah alone that this event relates to the period, when the persecution of the Israelites by Pharaoh was at its height and, like the chiefs of the Quraish, Pharaoh and his courtiers were deluded by delay in the scourge that there was no power above them to take them to task, and like the persecuted Muslims of Makkah, the persecuted Muslims of Egypt were crying in their agony, as if to say, "Our Lord! In this these people brazenfacedly use "facts " and "quotations " so cunningly and cleverly as to achieve their mean end and one begins to have nausea at their "research " |
If it is not so and your allegation is based on a couple of journeys which the Holy Prophet made outside Arabia, a question arises: How many books did the Holy Prophet copy or commit to memory during these trade journeys before his Prophethood? Therefore the tradition from 'Aufi cannot be accepted.
this event also might not have remained intact but during the passage of centuries changes and alterations might have been made in it.
18| Now let us consider the question: when and where did this event take place? Swahili - Al-Barwani : Na pale Musa alipo mwambia kijana wake Sitoacha kuendelea mpaka nifike zinapo kutana bahari mbili au nitaendelea kwa muda mrefu• They had a goad reason to produce an instance of this because they were being challenged over and over again to refute the claim that the Qur'an was a revealed book and it had no other source than Divine Knowledge and that if they said that it was a human work, they were to prove this by bringing the like of it | On the contrary, the Qur'an says explicitly that Prophet Moses passed the whole of his life after Exodus from Egypt in the desert Sinai and At-Tilt |
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| Ibn Jarir may Allah have mercy on him said, "Some of the scholars of the Arabic language said that Huqub means a year in the dialect of the tribe of Qays,'' then he narrated that Abdullah bin Amr said, "Huqub means eighty years | The disbelievers and the tyrants conclude from this that the world is functioning without any moral laws and has no sovereign, and, if there is one, he must be senseless and unjust: therefore one may do whatever one desires for there is none to whom one shall be accountable |
3 How is it then that the contemporary disbelievers of Makkah and the Jews and the Christians, who like you, were always in search of such a proof, could not put forward even a single instance of plagiarism? So he said to that boy-servant of his:.
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