160 - Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Barqī narrated to me, he said: Ibn Abī Maryam narrated to me, from Ibn Lahīʿa, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr regarding His statement: {Lord of the worlds}, he said: The son of Adam, and the jinn and mankind; every nation among them is a world unto itself. (1)
161 - Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd narrated to me, he said: Mihrān narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Mujāhid: {Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds}, he said: Mankind and the jinn. (2)
162 - Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, from Sufyān, from a man, from Mujāhid the like of it. (3)
163 - Bishr ibn Muʿādh al-ʿAqadī narrated to us, he said: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: {Lord of the worlds}, he said: Every species is a world. (4)
Notes
- (1) Report 160 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Barqī: He was known by this name, attributed to his grandfather, as well as his brother "Muḥammad", and he is: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm. Al-Ṭabarī's narration from him has also passed under no. 22 by the name "Ibn al-Barqī". Ibn Abī Maryam: He is Saʿīd. Ibn Lahīʿa: He is ʿAbd Allāh. ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār al-Miṣrī: Trustworthy, declared reliable by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Dāwūd, and others. Ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (3/1/332) and in al-Marāsīl (58) from Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, who said: "ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār is among the trustworthy people of Egypt, and his Tafsir — in what is narrated from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr — is a written sheet (ṣaḥīfa), and he has no indication that he heard directly from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr." And he narrated in al-Jarḥ from his father Abū Ḥātim that he said: "He is sound in hadith, except that he took the Tafsir from the registry (dīwān), for ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān wrote asking Saʿīd ibn Jubayr to write the Tafsir of the Qurʾān to him, so Saʿīd ibn Jubayr wrote this Tafsir to him, and ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār found it in the registry, took it, and transmitted it as a mursal report from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr."
- (2) Report 161 – Its Chain of transmission to Mujāhid is Da'if (Weak). Because Sufyān — who is al-Thawrī — did not hear from Mujāhid; for al-Thawrī was born in the year 97, and Mujāhid died in the year 100 or shortly after. What appears clear to me is that this narration is among the errors of Mihrān ibn Abī ʿUmar, its narrator from al-Thawrī, as his narrations from al-Thawrī contain confusion, as we clarified in the previous hadith 11.
And this report was mentioned by Ibn Kathīr (1/44) without attribution or Chain of transmission. Al-Suyūṭī mentioned it in al-Durr al-Manthūr (1/13) and also attributed it to ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd.
- (3) Report 162 – Its Chain of transmission is Da'if (Weak), due to the anonymity of the man narrating it from Mujāhid. It indicates Mihrān's error in the Chain of transmission before it, as he made it directly from al-Thawrī from Mujāhid without an intermediary.
- (4) Report 163 – Saʿīd: He is Ibn Abī ʿArūba, and another report from Qatāda with this Chain of transmission has already passed (119). Al-Suyūṭī mentioned this report in al-Durr al-Manthūr (1/13), and there is a typographical error in its attribution there: "Ibn Jurayj" instead of "Ibn Jarīr". The statement of Ibn Jurayj will come later (165) narrated from him, not as a narrator.
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