يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِن جَآءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌۢ بِنَبَإٍۢ فَتَبَيَّنُوٓا۟ أَن تُصِيبُوا۟ قَوْمًۢا بِجَهَٰلَةٍۢ فَتُصْبِحُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَٰدِمِينَ
O you who have faith! If a vicious character brings you some news, verify it, lest you should visit [harm] on some people out of ignorance, and then become regretful for what you have done.
وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ لَوْ يُطِيعُكُمْ فِى كَثِيرٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ لَعَنِتُّمْ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ حَبَّبَ إِلَيْكُمُ ٱلْإِيمَٰنَ وَزَيَّنَهُۥ فِى قُلُوبِكُمْ وَكَرَّهَ إِلَيْكُمُ ٱلْكُفْرَ وَٱلْفُسُوقَ وَٱلْعِصْيَانَ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلرَّٰشِدُونَ
Know that the Apostle of Allah is among you. Should he comply with you in many matters, you would surely suffer. But Allah has endeared faith to you and made it appealing in your hearts, and He has made hateful to you faithlessness, transgression and disobedience. It is such who are the right-minded—
فَضْلًۭا مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَنِعْمَةًۭ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌۭ
a grace and blessing from Allah, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.
وَإِن طَآئِفَتَانِ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ٱقْتَتَلُوا۟ فَأَصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَهُمَا ۖ فَإِنۢ بَغَتْ إِحْدَىٰهُمَا عَلَى ٱلْأُخْرَىٰ فَقَٰتِلُوا۟ ٱلَّتِى تَبْغِى حَتَّىٰ تَفِىٓءَ إِلَىٰٓ أَمْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ فَإِن فَآءَتْ فَأَصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَهُمَا بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَأَقْسِطُوٓا۟ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُقْسِطِينَ
If two groups of the faithful fight one another, make peace between them. But if one party of them aggresses against the other, fight the one which aggresses until it returns to Allah’s ordinance. Then, if it returns, make peace between them fairly, and do justice. Indeed Allah loves the just.
إِنَّمَا ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌۭ فَأَصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَ أَخَوَيْكُمْ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ
The faithful are indeed brothers. Therefore, make peace between your brothers and be wary of Allah, so that you may receive [His] mercy.
English translation: Ali Quli Qarai
This passage moves from an epistemic discipline (v.6) through the standing of the Prophet among the community (vv.7–8) to the law of reconciling warring believers (vv.9–10).
‘If a transgressor brings you news, verify.’ On the occasion, the sources divide along confessional lines, and are reported here as attributed. Ṭabarsī, Ṭūsī and the Enlightening Commentary give the mainstream account of al-Walīd b. ʿUqba and the alms of Banū al-Muṣṭaliq — his false report of their apostasy, the Prophet’s near-raid, and (in the EC) Khālid b. al-Walīd’s quiet investigation that cleared them. Al-Qummī and al-Burhān instead place the verse in the slander of Māriya the Copt, and the sending of ʿAlī, who ‘ascertained’ rather than struck and found the accused man a eunuch — al-Burhān harmonizing the two by al-Bāqir’s ẓahr/baṭn principle. From the verse Ṭūsī and al-Mīzān draw a shared legal-epistemic lesson: a single report yields no certainty and no binding action; al-Mīzān frames the whole as the Qurʾān ratifying, not founding, the rational practice of acting on trustworthy reports.
The Messenger among you. Vv.7–8 warn that were the Prophet to follow the community’s wishes ‘in much of the matter,’ they would fall into hardship; his conforming is called ‘obeying’ them only figuratively (Ṭabarsī, Ṭūsī, al-Mīzān). All note the triad opposed to faith — unbelief, iniquity, disobedience — and Ṭabarsī reports ‘fusūq = lying’ from al-Bāqir. Here the Imāmī sources add a taʾwīl rendered as attributed: al-Burhān (from al-Ṣādiq via Ibn Kathīr) and the Enlightening Commentary read ‘He endeared faith to you’ as love of ʿAlī, and the hateful triad as its opposite.
Two parties, and the brotherhood of believers. On v.9 the commentators expound the graded rule: reconcile; if one party transgresses, fight it until it returns to God’s command; then reconcile with justice and equity — the Enlightening Commentary drawing out four successive injunctions and grounding justice in the order of creation. The Imāmī sources supply a pointed application, given as attributed: al-Qummī and al-Burhān (from al-Ṣādiq) identify the verse’s fulfilment with the Day of al-Jamal (Baṣra) and those who rebelled against ʿAlī, tied to the Prophet’s word that ‘one will fight over the interpretation as I fought over the revelation — the patcher of the sandal.’ On v.10, ‘the believers are but brothers,’ Ṭabarsī, Ṭūsī and al-Mīzān distinguish this religious brotherhood and its duties; al-Mīzān cites al-Ṣādiq (‘the believer is the brother of the believer, his eye and guide’); al-Burhān recalls the Prophet’s pairing of the Muslims and his word to ʿAlī, ‘You are my brother’; and the Enlightening Commentary closes with the Prophet’s tradition of the thirty rights a Muslim owes his brother.