Conditions of the exegete in the chapter of the occasions of revelation:

And all of these - in reality -

are not from the occasions of revelation in any way

and it is not from the conditions of the exegete

comprehending them and encompassing them.

It is only stipulated upon the exegete in this chapter

knowledge of two things:

1 - Knowledge of those stories which the noble verses include alluding to them

for indeed understanding the hint of these verses and their indication

does not become easy except by knowing those stories.

2 - The second: knowledge of that story which benefits the specification of the general

and likes of that from what speech is diverted in it from its apparent meaning readily understood from it

since understanding the objectives of the verses and their goals

does not come about without that.

Most stories of the former prophets are from narrations of the People of the Book:

And it is fitting that it be known here,

that the stories of the former prophets

were not mentioned in the authentic traditions except a little,

and that these long and broad stories

which the exegetes undertake narrating,

and they recount them in their exegeses all of them

are transmitted from the People of the Book except what God - Most High - willed.

And indeed it came in Sahih al-Bukhari:

"Do not believe the People of the Book and do not disbelieve them".