Mujāhid: "And they used to hold that that is the covering (al-rayn)." (1)
301- Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujāhid, he said: "The heart is like the palm of the hand; whenever a person commits a sin, he closes a finger until he closes all his fingers." — And our companions used to hold that it is the covering (al-rān). (2)
302- Al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, he said: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, he said: Mujāhid said: "I was informed that sins encompass the heart from all its sides until they meet upon it; so their meeting upon it is the stamping (al-ṭabʿ), and al-ṭabʿ is the sealing (al-khatm)." Ibn Jurayj said: "Sealing (al-khatm) is sealing upon the heart and hearing." (3)
303- Al-Qāsim narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, from Ibn Jurayj, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr narrated to me that he heard Mujāhid say: "The rust (al-rān) is lighter than stamping (al-ṭabʿ), and stamping (al-ṭabʿ) is lighter than locks (al-aqfāl), and locks are the most severe of all of that." (4)
Notes
- (1) Tradition 300- ʿĪsā ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Tamīmī al-Nahshalī: Al-Nasāʾī said: "He is acceptable (ṣāliḥ)." He is among the teachers of al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mandah, and others; he died in the year 251. Al-Bukhārī also narrated from him in al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr (p. 224) in the biography of his uncle. His uncle is "Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā". Aḥmad, al-ʿIjlī, and others declared him trustworthy (thiqa). Al-Bukhārī gave his biography in al-Ṣaghīr, saying: "ʿĪsā ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĪsā narrated to me, saying: Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā Abū Zakariyyā al-Tamīmī died in the year 201 or thereabouts. He was originally from Kufa, and was called 'al-Ramlī' only because he narrated in al-Ramla and died there." He also gave his biography in al-Kabīr (4/2: 296): "Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ramlī; he heard from al-Aʿmash, and he is al-Tamīmī Abū Zakariyyā al-Kūfī, settled in al-Ramla..." and he did not mention any criticism against him.
And this tradition will come with this chain of transmission in the exegesis of the verse of Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn: 14 (Būlāq 30:63). Ibn Kathīr mentioned it (1/82), as did al-Suyūṭī (6/326).
- (2) Tradition 301- It will also come (Būlāq 30:63). Ibn Kathīr alluded to it (1/83) without mentioning its text, as did al-Suyūṭī (6/325).
- (3) Tradition 302- This is from the narration of Ibn Jurayj from Mujāhid, and it appears to be broken (munqaṭiʿ), because Ibn Jurayj narrates from Mujāhid through an intermediary, as will come in the tradition after it. Ibn Kathīr mentioned this tradition (1/83), but it is corrupted in his text by the copyist or printer.
- (4) Tradition 303- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr: He is al-Dārī al-Makkī, one of the seven famous Qur'an reciters, and he is trustworthy (thiqa). He recited the Qur'an to Mujāhid. Ibn Abī Ḥātim conflated him in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (2/2: 144) with "ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn Abī Wadāʿa al-Sahmī". It appears from the words of al-Ḥāfiẓ in al-Tahdhīb (5/368) that this illusion originated from al-Bukhārī himself; perhaps Ibn Abī Ḥātim followed him in his illusion without verification.
And this tradition was mentioned by Ibn Kathīr (1/83), as well as al-Suyūṭī (6/326), who added attributing it to al-Bayhaqī.
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