=Etymology=

:والتَّهْوِيدُ والتَّهْوادُ والتَّهَوُّدُ: الإِبْطاءُ في السَّيْر واللِّينُ والتَّرَفُّقُ

Indeed it is known that the Jews do not delay when it comes to burial as they are required to bury on the same day.

==Used for Incitement==

Ibn Kathir commented: "Allah the Exalted encourages the believers to fight the polytheists, disbelieving Delayers (commonly mistranslated as Jews) and Netzarim, who uttered this terrible statement and utter lies against Allah, the Exalted. As for the Delayers , they claimed that `Uzayr was the son of God, Allah is free of what they attribute to Him"[http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2565&Itemid=64]. Kathir's understanding of Quran 9.30 is that its whole purpose (whether true or not) is to incite the believers against the Delayers and Netzarim. In another position in his Tafseer he said: "Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated". It makes one wonder how it never reached him the saying of The Prophet (PBHH) that: “He who kills a Dhimmi will never smell the scent of Heaven even though its scent can be detected over the distance traversed in forty years” [Sahih Al-Bukhari]. He (PBUH) also said: “He who harms a Dhimmi (see below*) has indeed harmed me and will answer to me on the Day of Resurrection” [Kashf el-Khafa’a] . [* Dhimmi is a peaceful citizen living among the followers of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) according to Dhimmah, i.e. the covenant of peaceful co-existence, called Madinah Document/ Madinah Constitution).

Salaam went to him. He asked, What is with you?” He said, “I have come to help you.”

He said, “Go to the people and put them away from me, for, you are better for me

and verses of Allah’s Book were revealed about me. And, this vere was revealed about

me:

The beliefs of those who Delay mentioned in Medina, Khybar and Hijaz in the time of Mahomed (PBUH) are (with the exception of lip-service concerning the Laws of Moses) similar to those ascribed by Maimonides to the proto-Hebrews in the towns where he who became Abraham lived prior to his calling. This "proto-Hebrew" religion was described by Maimonides as a kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism Hermeticism]. The fact that the "Delayers" of Khybar who laid some sort of claim to the Laws of Moses indicates that these particular Delayers had once been in some kind of contact with [[Jews in the Quran|real Jews]]. In the same way that "Ger Sheker" Heretics from among other Hebrew peoples such as the Amalekites or Idumeans (See Moshe Sharon's entry on People of the Book in the Encyclopedia of the Quran) clearly the tribes of Hijaz, Khaybar, and Medina criticised as being "Delayers" had also come into contact with the Torah and, just like most Christians, decided to ignore it. In fact there are many more similarities between Delayers and certain types of Christian.

Distancing them from a superficial similarity to Christianity, the '''Hoodan''' (Delay) belief of the يهود (Delayers) of Khybar rejected Gabriel as an enemy (SB Book #55 Hadith #546, SB Book #58 Hadith #275, SB Book #60 Hadith #7) and is doomed for being based around the veneration of عزير (SB Book #93 Hadith #532s, SB Book #60 Hadith #105 and in Quran 9:30, [http://levinsky.academia.edu/AryeOlman/Papers/190914/_Uzair_As_a_Son_of_Allah_-_Understanding_of_One_Accusation Osiris according to Mohammed Magdi Bey, or a fallen angel according to Arye Olman], AlTabiri says in the opinion of عَبْد اللَّه بْن عُبَيْد بْن عُمَيْر Abdullah ibn Ubayd ibn Umayr that it was only Pinhas ben Azarya believed this as the only begotten son of a "hand-fettered" depiction of Allah (Quran 5:64) as if the Quran is wrong to use the plural Delayers. Allegedly it was also Pinhas who said: { إِنَّ اللَّه فَقِير وَنَحْنُ أَغْنِيَاء } "Truly, Allah is indigent and we are rich!"<ref>Tafseer Al-Tabari</ref>)