22- Ibn al-Barqī narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us, saying: Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd narrated to us, saying: ʿUqayl ibn Khālid narrated to me, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who said: "Gabriel taught me to recite the Qur'an according to one Harf, so I asked him for more and he increased it for me, then I asked him for more and he increased it for me, until he reached seven Ahruf." (1)
23- Al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān narrated to me, saying: Asad ibn Mūsā narrated to us, saying: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Yazīd, from his father, that he heard Umm Ayyūb narrating from the Prophet ﷺ, and he mentioned something similar to it—meaning similar to the hadith of Ibn Abī Makhlad. (2)
Notes
- (1) Hadith 22: This is a Sahih (Authentic) chain of transmission. It has already passed under number 19 with two other chains of transmission, and we explained its documentation there.
"Ibn al-Barqī," the sheikh of al-Ṭabarī, is "Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm," the Egyptian Hadith master (d. 270 AH). He has a biography in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (2: 135).
"Ibn Abī Maryam" is "Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim" al-Miṣrī, known as Ibn Abī Maryam. His biography is in al-Tahdhīb.
- (2) Hadith 23: This is a Sahih (Authentic) chain of transmission. Al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān is al-Murādī the muezzin, the companion of al-Shāfiʿī and the transmitter of his books. Asad ibn Mūsā al-Marwānī al-Umawī al-Miṣrī was called "Asad al-Sunna" (the Lion of the Sunna), a trustworthy narrator among the trustworthy. Al-Bukhārī said in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (1/2/50): "His hadith is well-known." The hadith is repeated under number 20, as al-Ṭabarī indicated by referring back to it. It will follow this with another chain of transmission.
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