Then the suras of the Qurʾān have names given to them by the Messenger of God (peace and blessings of God be upon him):
126- Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, saying: Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī narrated to us, saying: Abū al-ʿAwwām narrated to us—and Muḥammad ibn Khalaf al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to me, saying: Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ narrated to us, saying: Saʿīd ibn Bashīr narrated to us, all of them—from Qatāda, from Abū al-Malīḥ, from Wāthila ibn al-Asqaʿ: that the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him) said: "I was given in place of the Torah the Seven Long Suras, and I was given in place of the Psalms the Hundred-Verse Suras, and I was given in place of the Gospel the Oft-Repeated Suras, and I was favored with the Detailed Suras" (1).
127- Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, saying: Ibn ʿUlayya narrated to us, from Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from Abū Qilāba, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings of God be upon him) said: "I was given the Seven Long Suras in place of the Torah, and I was given the Oft-Repeated Suras in place of the Psalms, and I was given the Hundred-Verse Suras in place of the Gospel, and I was favored with the Detailed Suras" (2). Khālid said: They used to call the Detailed Suras "the Arabic". Khālid said: Some of them said: "There is no prostration in the Arabic."
Notes
- (1) Hadith 126- Al-Ṭabarī narrated it here through two Chains of transmission, one of which is Sahih (Authentic) and the other is Da'if (Weak): He narrated it from the route of Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī from Abū al-ʿAwwām, and this is a Sahih (Authentic) Chain of transmission. And he narrated it through the route of Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ from Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, and this is a Da'if (Weak) Chain of transmission—both from Qatāda.
As for the route of al-Ṭayālisī, it is in his Musnad No. 1012; Aḥmad narrated it in al-Musnad No. 17049 (4: 107, al-Ḥalabī edition); and al-Haythamī mentioned it in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid 7: 158 and also attributed it to al-Ṭabarānī "similarly". Abū al-ʿAwwām in the first Chain of transmission is "ʿImrān ibn Dāwar" (with an a on the dāl, a wāw with an a after the alif, and a rāʾ at the end)—"al-Qaṭṭān", and he is trustworthy.
As for the second route, its Chain of transmission includes "Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-ʿAsqalānī", who is truthful, except that his memory changed at the end of his life, as Abū Ḥātim said in what his son transmitted from him in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl 1/2: 524, and al-Bukhārī said in al-Kabīr 2/1: 307: "He had become confused; his hadith could hardly stand." "Rawwād" is with an a on the rāʾ, a doubled wāw, and a dāl at the end. In the manuscripts here, "Dāwūd" occurred, which is an error. In its Chain of transmission there is also "Saʿīd ibn Bashīr", who is truthful, but they criticize his memory. However, Rawwād was not alone in narrating it from Saʿīd, for Ibn Kathīr mentioned it in Tafsir 1: 64 from the book of Abū ʿUbayd: from Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dimashqī from Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb from Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, and Ibn Kathīr said: "This is a Singular (Gharib) hadith, and Saʿīd ibn Bashīr has softness in him," which is an unrefined reasoning! For Saʿīd ibn Bashīr was not alone in narrating it—as is evident—rather, his narration was supported by the narration of al-Ṭayālisī from Abū al-ʿAwwām ʿImrān ibn Dāwar, which is a Sahih (Authentic) Chain of transmission, as we said. It will come with a third Chain of transmission, No. 129.
- (2) Hadith 127- This is a Mursal report from Abū Qilāba.
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