Tafsir at-Tabari: Jami' al-Bayan - Dar al-Tarbiyah wa al-Turath Edition

Volume 1 · Page 183

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{Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he says: Inspire us with the guiding road, which is the religion of God that has no crookedness (1).

180 - Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Rāzī narrated to us, he said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAwf narrated to us, from al-Furāt ibn al-Sāʾib, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, from Ibn ʿAbbās, regarding His statement: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he said: "That is Islam (2)."

181 - Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh narrated to me, he said: Muḥammad ibn Rabīʿa al-Kilābī narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl al-Azraq, from Abū ʿUmar al-Bazzār, from Ibn al-Ḥanafiya, regarding His statement: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he said: "It is the religion of God, other than which He accepts from no servant (3)."

182 - Mūsā ibn Hārūn al-Hamdānī narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr ibn Ṭalḥa al-Qannād narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī—in a report he mentioned—from Abū Mālik, and from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās—and from Murra al-Hamdānī, from Ibn Masʿūd—and from people among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he said: "It is Islam (4).

183 - Al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, from Ibn Jurayj, he said: Ibn ʿAbbās said regarding His statement: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}: "The road (5)."

184 - ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr Abū Ṣudayf al-Āmulī narrated to us, he said: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us, he said: Ḥamza ibn al-Mughīra narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū al-ʿĀliya, regarding His statement: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he said: "It is the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and his two companions after him, Abū Bakr and ʿUmar." He said: So I mentioned that to al-Ḥasan, and he said: "Abū al-ʿĀliya spoke the truth and gave sincere counsel (6)."

Notes

(1) Hadith 179 - Its Chain of transmission is Da'if (Weak); the explanation of its weakness was previously given: 137. Ibn Kat̲hīr transmitted this wording (1: 50) without a Chain of transmission or attribution. Al-Suyūṭī transmitted it (1: 14) in abridged form and attributed it to al-Ṭabarī alone.
(2) Report 180 - Its Chain of transmission is extremely Da'if (Weak), in addition to our ignorance regarding the state of some of its narrators: Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Rāzī, the Sheikh of al-Ṭabarī: we are not certain which man he is. Perhaps he is "Mūsā ibn Sahl ibn Qādim, also called Ibn Mūsā Abū ʿUmar al-Ramalī, originally from Nasā." He is a Sheikh of al-Ṭabarī with a biography in al-Tahḏīb (10: 347), but he was not attributed as "al-Rāzī." In the manuscript it was written: "Sahl ibn Mūsā"! We did not find this biography either, and we consider it likely to be a copyist's error. Yaḥyā ibn ʿAwf: We found no biography under this name at all in any of the references available to us. As for the defect of the Chain of transmission, it is "al-Furāt ibn al-Sāʾib al-Jazarī", who is very weak. Al-Bukhārī said in al-Kabīr (4/1/130): "They abandoned him; his hadith is disclaimed." The Imams said the same about him, and Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Majrūḥīn (folio 187): "He was among those who narrated fabricated reports on the authority of trustworthy narrators, and produced Problematic (hadiths) from reliable authorities. It is not permissible to use his reports as proof, nor to narrate from him, nor to write down his hadith except for examination." As for Maymūn ibn Mihrān, he is a well-known trustworthy Successor (Tabi'i), a Jurist (Fiqh) and proof.
This report was cited by Ibn Kat̲hīr (1: 50) passively with the phrasing: "And it was said: It is Islam." Al-Suyūṭī cited it (1: 15) attributed to Ibn Jurayj alone, with a typographical error in it: "Ibn Jurayj"!
(3) Narrated report 181 - Ibn al-Ḥanafiyya: He is Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and al-Ḥanafiyya is his mother, Khawla bint Jaʿfar from Banū Ḥanīfa; he was known by attribution to her. This Chain of transmission to him is Da'if (Weak): Muḥammad ibn Rabīʿa al-Kilābī al-Ruʿāsī: Trustworthy, from the Sheikhs of Aḥmad and Ibn Maʿīn. Ismāʿīl al-Azraq: He is Ismāʿīl ibn Salmān, and he is weak. Ibn Maʿīn said: "His hadith is nothing." Ibn Numayr and al-Nasāʾī said: "Abandoned." Ibn Ḥibbān said in Kitāb al-Majrūḥīn (p. 78, no. 35): "He uniquely narrates disclaimed reports from famous narrators." Abū ʿUmar al-Bazzār: He is Dīnār ibn ʿUmar al-Asadī al-Kūfī al-Aʿmā, and he is trustworthy. Ibn Kat̲hīr mentioned this narrated report (1: 51) without attribution or Chain of transmission.
(4) Report 182 - This is from the Tafsir of al-Suddī, and the explanation of its Chain of transmission was previously given: 168. Ibn Kat̲hīr transmitted it (1: 50) as did al-Suyūṭī (1: 15).

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