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

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His acts of disobedience, and exposing themselves to His wrath, which they have no power to withstand, lest He lead them, in punishment and vengeance, along the path of those among the destroyed who committed such acts.

That, then, is the reason for the lengthiness of the explanation in Surah Umm al-Qur'an, and in whatever is similar to it among the rest of the surahs of the Criterion. And that is the profound wisdom and the conclusive proof.

221 - Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Al-Muḥāribī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, he said: Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to me, from Abū al-Sāʾib, the freed slave of Zuhra, from Abū Hurayra, he said: The Messenger of Allah, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "When the servant says: 'Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds', Allah says: 'My servant has praised Me.' And when he says: 'The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful', He says: 'My servant has extolled Me.' And when he says: 'Master of the Day of Judgment', He says: 'My servant has glorified Me. This is for Me.' And when he says: 'You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help' to the end of the surah, He says: 'This is for him (1)'."

222 - Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: ʿAbda narrated to us, from Ibn Isḥāq, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Hurayra, he said: "When the servant says: 'Praise be to Allah... '", and he mentioned the like of it, and he did not attribute it to the Prophet (2).

223 - Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Abū Usāma narrated to us, he said: Al-Walīd ibn Kathīr narrated to us, he said: Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the freed slave of al-Ḥuraqa, narrated to me, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Hurayra, from the Messenger of Allah, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, the like of it (3).

224 - Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār al-Marwazī narrated to me, he said: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us,

Notes

(1) Hadith 221 – Al-Muḥāribī: He is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, and he is trustworthy; the group narrated from him. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq: He is Ibn Yasār, the author of al-Sīra, trustworthy and well-known; some spoke against him without proof and without basis. Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿqūb, client of al-Ḥuraqa—with a ḍamma on the ḥāʾ and a fatḥa on the rāʾ: a trustworthy Successor (Tabi'i). Abū al-Sāʾib, client of Zuhra: a trustworthy Successor (Tabi'i); Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: "They agreed that he is trustworthy and acceptable in transmission." Al-Ṭabarī narrated the hadith after this as a Mawquf through two chains of transmission. We will mention its documentation at the end of the second of them: 223.
(2) Hadith 222 – ʿAbda: He is Ibn Sulaymān al-Kilābī, among the teachers of Aḥmad and Isḥāq; Aḥmad said: "Trustworthy, trustworthy, and more, along with righteousness in his body."
(3) Hadith 223 – Abū Usāma: He is Ḥammād ibn Usāma. Al-Walīd ibn Kathīr al-Makhzūmī: trustworthy, firm; the group narrated from him. And this hadith—with its two Mawquf chains of transmission—is Marfu' in ruling, even if in these two narrations it is Mawquf in wording. For this is something that cannot be known by personal opinion, nor does it fall within the domain of Ijtihad. Furthermore, raising it (al-rafʿ) is an addition by a trustworthy narrator, which is acceptable. Above all of this, the narrator of the first chain of transmission—al-Muḥāribī—was not alone in raising it; rather, it has been transmitted as Marfu' through other chains of transmission. It is an excerpt from a long hadith narrated by Mālik in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ: 84–85, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, with this chain of transmission as Marfu'. Mālik suffices as a proof in verifying its being raised in wording above its being raised in ruling. Likewise, Muslim narrated it 1: 166 (4: 101–104 of al-Nawawī's commentary), from the route of Mālik, from the route of Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, from the route of Ibn Jurayj, and from the route of Abū Uways—all of them from al-ʿAlāʾ, from Abū al-Sāʾib, as Marfu'. Abū Uways added from al-ʿAlāʾ that he said: "I heard from my father and from Abū al-Sāʾib, and both were companions of Abū Hurayra...", and he mentioned it as Marfu'. Al-Suyūṭī attributed it 1: 6 to Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna in his Tafsīr, Abū ʿUbayda in his Faḍāʾil, Ibn Abī Shayba, Aḥmad, al-Bukhārī in Juzʾ al-Qirāʾa, the authors of the four Sunans, Ibn Ḥibbān, and others. Ibn Kathīr mentioned 1: 24–25 some of its routes in detail.

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