Hadith 54

Tafseer Al-Qummi – Ali Bin Ibrahim said regarding Words of the Exalted: Have you not seen those who befriend a people whom Allah is Wrathful upon? [58: 14]. He said, ‘It was Revealed regarding the second (Umar), because Rasool-Allah-saww passed by him and he was seated in the presence of a man from the Jews, writing the Hadeeth of Rasool-Allah-saww. Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Praise, Revealed: Have you not seen those who befriend a people whom Allah is Wrathful upon? They are neither from you nor from them, [58: 14]. The second (Umar) came to the Prophet-saww and Rasool-Allah-saww said to him: ‘I-saww saw you writing from the Jews, and Allah-azwj has Forbidden from that? ’
He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I wrote from him what is in the Torah of your-saww description’, and he went on to read that out to Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-saww was angry. A man from the Helpers said, ‘Woe be unto you! Can’t you see the anger of the Prophet-saww upon you? ’
He said, ‘I seek Refuge with Allah-azwj from the Wrath of Allah-azwj and anger of His-azwj Rasool-saww. But rather, I wrote that due to what I found in it of your-saww news! ’
Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O so and so! Even if Musa-as Bin Imran-as had been standing among them, then you went to him-as describing about what he-as had come with, you would be a Kafir with what I-saww have come with, and it is His-azwj Word: They are taking their oaths as a shield [58: 16] – i. e. , a barrier between them and the Kafirs, and their oaths of the acceptance with the tongues, panicking from the sword and to repel the taxation’’. [19]