229- Aḥmad ibn Ḥāzim al-Ghifārī narrated to us, he said: Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us, he said: Sufyān narrated to us, from Mujāhid, he said: “Alif Lām Mīm” are openings.
230- Al-Muthannā ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, from Sufyān, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, he said: “Alif Lām Mīm”, “Ḥā Mīm”, “Alif Lām Mīm Ṣād”, and “Ṣād” are openings with which God opened [the Quran] (1).
231- Al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mujāhid, similar to the report of Hārūn ibn Idrīs.
Others said: It is a name for the surah.
232- Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb informed us, he said: I asked ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam about the statement of God: {Alif Lām Mīm. That Book}, {Alif Lām Mīm. The Revelation}, and {Alif Lām Rā. These}, and he said: My father said: They are simply names of the surahs.
Some of them said: It is the Greatest Name of God.
233- Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, he said: Shuʿba narrated to us, he said: I asked al-Suddī about “Ḥā Mīm”, “Ṭā Sīn Mīm”, and “Alif Lām Mīm”, and he said: Ibn ʿAbbās said: It is the Greatest Name of God.
234- Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us, he said: Abū al-Nuʿmān narrated to me, he said: Shuʿba narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl al-Suddī, from Murra al-Hamdānī, he said: ʿAbd Allāh said, and he mentioned something similar.
235- Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, from Ismāʿīl, from al-Shaʿbī, he said: The openings of the surahs are among the names of God.
Some of them said: It is an oath by which God swore, and it is among His names.
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