for my nation, to the extent that Abraham, the intimate friend of the Most Compassionate, desires it." (1)
40- Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, from his father, he said: The Messenger of God (Peace and blessings of God be upon him) said: "Gabriel said: 'Recite the Qurʾān according to one mode.' So Michael said: 'Ask him for more.' So he said: 'According to two modes.' Until he reached six or seven modes, and he said: 'All of them are curing and sufficient, as long as a verse of punishment is not concluded with mercy, or a verse of mercy with punishment; like your saying: Come here and come along.'" (2)
41- Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl informed me, from Yazīd ibn Khuṣayfah, from Busr ibn Saʿīd: That Abū Juhaym al-Anṣārī informed him: That two men differed over a verse of the Qurʾān; this one said: "I received it from the Messenger of God (Peace and blessings of God be upon him)." And the other said: "I received it from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings
Notes
- (1) Hadith 39: This is an authentic chain of transmission to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, but it is Mursal, since Ibn Abī Laylā did not mention from which of the Companions he narrated it. However, it is supported by the previous narrations of Ibn Abī Laylā on the authority of Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, so it is like a continuous report in meaning.
And "Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam": He is al-ʿAnazī al-Wāsiṭī, a trustworthy, firm, and truthful narrator according to all teachers, as stated by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; he died in the year 122. In al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr by al-Bukhārī (2/2/162): "Ibn ʿUyayna said: Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam accompanied ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar from Kufa to Medina, so he ordered a thousand dirhams for him. He said: 'I did not accompany you for this, but I said: a righteous man, so I wished to accompany you.'"
- (2) Hadith 40: It will come again with this chain of transmission and wording under number 47.
It was narrated by Aḥmad in al-Musnad (5/51, al-Ḥalabī edition) from ʿAffān from Ḥammād ibn Salama, in a similar fashion. It was also narrated by him (5/41) from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī from Ḥammād ibn Salama, with some conciseness.
al-Haythamī cited it in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (7/151) and said: "Aḥmad narrated it, and al-Ṭabarānī narrated similarly, except that he said: 'and go and turn back.' Among its narrators is ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, who has poor memory, but he was supported, and the remaining men of Aḥmad are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ."
Ibn Kathīr cited it in al-Faḍāʾil (62–63) from the concise narration of al-Musnad, then he said: "And thus Ibn Jarīr narrated it from Abū Kurayb from Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb from Ḥammād ibn Salama, with it. And he added at its end: 'like your saying: come and approach.'" This addition is established in the detailed narration in al-Musnad (5/51) with the wording: "like your saying: approach, come forward, come, go, hasten, and hurry."
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