he said: ʿAnbasa ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf, from Saʿd ibn Isḥāq ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿUjra, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, he said: The Messenger of Allah, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Allah, Mighty and Majestic is He, said: 'I have divided the Prayer between Myself and My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what he asked.' So 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.' He said: 'This is for Me, and what remains [is for My servant]' (1)." "End of the Tafsir of Surah Fātiḥat al-Kitāb."
Notes
- (1) Hadith 224 - This chain of transmission is good and Sahih (Authentic). Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār al-Sulamī al-Marwazī: trustworthy, Muslim narrated from him in his Sahih, and Abū Ḥātim said: "truthful," as in his son's book 2/1/415, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt. ʿAnbasa ibn Saʿīd al-Ḍurays al-Rāzī, the judge of Rayy: trustworthy, Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Zurʿa, Abū Dāwūd, and others declared him trustworthy, and al-Bukhārī explicitly stated in al-Kabīr 4/1/35 that he narrates from Muṭarrif. And "al-Ḍurays": with a ḍād muʿjama with ḍamma and ending with an unpointed sīn, as vocalized by the Ḥāfiẓ in al-Taqrīb. Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf: trustworthy and firm, the group narrated from him. Saʿd ibn Isḥāq ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿUjra: trustworthy, with no disagreement about him, as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said, and he is among the teachers of Mālik. His narration from Jābir is continuous, because he narrates from his father "Isḥāq ibn Kaʿb" on the Day of al-Ḥarra in the year 63, and Jābir lived for more than ten years after that.
And the hadith was mentioned by al-Suyūṭī 1:6 and attributed to Ibn Jarīr and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in their two Tafsirs. And Ibn Kathīr mentioned it 1:25 from this location in al-Ṭabarī—and a typographical error occurred in its chain of transmission—and he said: "And this is singular (gharīb) from this aspect." Perhaps he means that no one narrated it from the hadith of Jābir except through this chain of transmission. There is no harm in that, and its meaning has been established from the hadith of Abū Hurayra, so it is a strong supporting witness for its authenticity.
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