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AI translationfrom Mujāhid, from Ibn Abī Laylā, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, similar to it. (1)
38- Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Hishām ibn Saʿd informed me, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, that he said: I heard a man reciting in Sūrat al-Naḥl a recitation differing from my recitation, then I heard another reciting it in a recitation differing from that. So I went with them both to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and said: "I heard these two reciting in Sūrat al-Naḥl, so I asked them: 'Who taught you both to recite?' They both said: 'The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him.' So I said: 'I shall take you both to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, since you both differ from what the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, taught me to recite.'" Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said to one of them: "Recite." So he recited, and he said: "You have done well." Then he said to the other: "Recite." So he recited, and he said: "You have done well." Ubayy said: "So I found in myself the whispering of Satan, until my face turned red, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, recognized that in my face. So he struck with his hand against my chest, then said: 'O Allah, drive Satan away from him! O Ubayy, a coming visitor from my Lord came to me and said: "Allah commands you to recite the Qur'an according to one mode." So I said: "My Lord, lighten it for me." Then he came to me a second time and said: "Allah commands you to recite the Qur'an according to one mode." So I said: "My Lord, lighten it for my nation." Then he came to me a third time and said the like of that, and I said the like of it. Then he came to me a fourth time and said: "Allah commands you to recite the Qur'an according to seven modes, and for every reply you have a request." So I said: "O Lord, forgive my nation! O Lord, forgive my nation!" And I stored away the third as intercession for my nation on the Day of Resurrection.'" (2)
Notes
- (1) Hadith 37: It is also a repetition of what preceded it. It is through two chains of transmission from Shuʿba. "Shabāba" in the second chain is Shabāba ibn Sawwār al-Fazārī al-Madāʾinī; he is trustworthy, and the authors of the Six Books transmitted from him.
- (2) Hadith 38: Ibn Kathīr transmitted this chain of transmission in al-Faḍāʾil: 56–57, and said: "An authentic (Sahih) chain of transmission." Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar pointed to it in al-Fatḥ 9:21. ʿUbayd Allāh, the narrator from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, is ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; he is an imam, trustworthy, an authority, one of the Seven Jurists of Medina. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal used to place him ahead of Mālik and others in narrating from Nāfiʿ, saying: "ʿUbayd Allāh is the most firm among them, the most retentive, and the most prolific in narration." In his biographical entry in al-Tahdhīb 7:40: "And al-Ḥarbī said: He did not meet ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā." I prefer the view that this is an error on the part of al-Ḥarbī, for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān died in the year 82 or 83, and ʿUbayd Allāh died in the year 144 or 145; thus contemporaneity is established, and it is sufficient to establish the continuity of the narration, provided the narrator is not a concealer (mudallis), and ʿUbayd Allāh was never such. Therefore, Ibn Kathīr was decisive regarding the authenticity of the chain of transmission.
And His statement in the first instance, "Lord, make it easy for me," is in al-Faḍāʾil by Ibn Kathīr: "Lord, make it easy for my nation."
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