وَحَدَّثَنِي سَلَمَةُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ جَابِرًا عَنْ قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: «فَلَنْ أَبْرَحَ الْأَرْضَ حَتَّى يَأْذَنَ لِي أَبِي أَوْ يَحْكُمَ اللَّهُ لِي وَهُوَ خَيْرُ الْحَاكِمِينَ»، فَقَالَ جَابِرٌ: لَمْ يَجِئْ تَأْوِيلُ هَذِهِ. قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: وَكَذَبَ.
Translation: Through Salamah b. Shabīb, al-Ḥumaydī and Sufyān: A man asked Jābir about Qurʾān 12:80, “I shall not leave this land until my father permits me or Allah decides for me; He is the best of judges.” Jābir said its realization had not yet arrived. Sufyān said: “He lied.”
The verse belongs to the account of Joseph’s brothers, one of whom resolves to remain in Egypt. The issue is Jābir’s claim that the verse awaits a future fulfillment; the following passage supplies Sufyān’s reason for rejecting that interpretation. The forceful «وَكَذَبَ» is his reported criticism, not independent proof of Jābir’s conscious intent to deceive.