Surah 3:182
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لَّقَدۡ سَمِعَ ٱللَّهُ قَوۡلَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ فَقِيرٞ وَنَحۡنُ أَغۡنِيَآءُۘ سَنَكۡتُبُ مَا قَالُواْ وَقَتۡلَهُمُ ٱلۡأَنۢبِيَآءَ بِغَيۡرِ حَقّٖ وَنَقُولُ ذُوقُواْ عَذَابَ ٱلۡحَرِيقِ
Certainly God has heard the words of those who said, ‘Surely God is poor and we are rich.’ We shall write down what they have said, along with their killing the prophets without any right, and We shall say, ‘Taste the punishment of the burning (Fire)!
ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتۡ أَيۡدِيكُمۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَيۡسَ بِظَلَّامٖ لِّلۡعَبِيدِ
That is for what your (own) hands have sent forward, and (know) that God is not an evildoer to (His) servants.’
ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَهِدَ إِلَيۡنَآ أَلَّا نُؤۡمِنَ لِرَسُولٍ حَتَّىٰ يَأۡتِيَنَا بِقُرۡبَانٖ تَأۡكُلُهُ ٱلنَّارُۗ قُلۡ قَدۡ جَآءَكُمۡ رُسُلٞ مِّن قَبۡلِي بِٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِ وَبِٱلَّذِي قُلۡتُمۡ فَلِمَ قَتَلۡتُمُوهُمۡ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ
Those (are the same people) who said, ‘Surely God has made us promise not to believe in any messenger until he brings a sacrifice which fire devours.’ Say: ‘Messengers have come to you before me with the clear signs, and with that which you spoke of. So why did you kill them, if you are truthful?’
فَإِن كَذَّبُوكَ فَقَدۡ كُذِّبَ رُسُلٞ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ جَآءُو بِٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِ وَٱلزُّبُرِ وَٱلۡكِتَٰبِ ٱلۡمُنِيرِ
If they call you a liar, (know that) messengers have been called liars before you, who brought the clear signs, and the scriptures, and the illuminating Book.
Sa'id bin Jubayr said that Ibn 'Abbas said, "When Allah's statement,
{Who is he that will lend to Allah a goodly loan so that He may multiply it to him many times?} 2:245
was revealed, the Jews said, 'O Muhammad! Has your Lord become poor so that He asks His servants to give Him a loan?' Allah sent down,
{Indeed, Allah has heard the statement of those (Jews) who say: "Truly, Allah is poor and we are rich!"} 3:181."
This Hadith was collected by Ibn Marduwyah and Ibn Abi Hatim.
Allah's statement,
contains a threat and a warning that Allah followed with His statement,
This is what they say about Allah and this is how they treat His Messengers. Allah will punish them for these deeds in the worst manner,
They will be addressed like this as a way of chastising, criticism, disgrace and humiliation.
Allah said,
Allah refuted their claim that in their Books, Allah took a covenant from them to only believe in the Messenger whose miracles include fire coming down from the sky that consumes the charity offered by a member of the Messenger's nation, as Ibn 'Abbas and Al-Hasan stated. Allah replied.
with proofs and evidence,
a fire that consumes the accepted charity, as you asked,
Why did you meet these Prophets with denial, defiance, stubbornness and even murder,
if you follow the truth and obey the Messengers?.
Allah then comforts His Prophet Muhammad.
meaning, do not be sad because they deny you, for you have an example in the Messengers who came before you. These Messengers were rejected although they brought clear proofs, plain evidence and unequivocal signs,
{and the Zubur}, the divinely revealed Books that were sent down to the Messengers,
meaning the clarification and best explanation.
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 2, Page 334-336)