Discourse on the explanation of the meaning of the statement of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him: "The Qur'an was revealed from seven gates of Paradise," and mention of the reports narrated regarding that (1)

Abū Jaʿfar said: Transmitters differed regarding the wording of the report about that from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him:

67 - It was narrated from Ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, that he said: The earlier Scripture was revealed from a single gate and in a single mode, whereas the Qur'an was revealed from seven gates and in seven modes: prohibiting and commanding, (2) lawful and prohibited, decisive and ambiguous, and parables. So deem lawful its lawful, deem prohibited its prohibited, do what you are commanded to do, refrain from what you are forbidden from, take heed from its parables, act upon its decisive [verses], believe in its ambiguous [verses], and say: "We believe in it; all of it is from our Lord."

Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated that to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed me, from ʿUqayl ibn Khālid, from Salama ibn Abī Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, from his father, from Ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him. (3)