Is it the judgment of the days of ignorance that they seek? Who is better than God as a judge for a people that comprehend? Why Do the People of the book Hate Muslims?
Translation endnotes
[5:48-50] Prophet Muhammed was not judging among people according to divine instructions besides the Quran. The Quran was the only divine authority. However, decades after Muhammed, those who turned away from the Quran turned Muhammed himself into a competing, supplementing, or contradicting authority through hadith collections and thereby regressed to the days of ignorance. The system belongs to God alone. Muhammed's sole mission was to deliver God's system to humanity. See 6:19, 112-116.