84 - And Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Masʿūdī narrated to me, he said: My father narrated to us, from his father, from his grandfather, from al-Aʿmash, from Muslim, from Masrūq, he said: ʿAbd Allāh used to recite a surah to us, then talk to us about it and explain it for most of the day. (1)
85 - Abū al-Sāʾib Salm ibn Junāda narrated to me (2), he said: Abū Muʿāwiya narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq, he said: ʿAlī appointed Ibn ʿAbbās over the Hajj, he said: So he delivered a sermon to the people such that if the Turks and the Byzantines had heard it, they would have accepted Islam; then he recited Sūrat al-Nūr to them and began explaining it.
86 - And Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, he said: Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil Shaqīq ibn Salama, he said: Ibn ʿAbbās recited Sūrat al-Baqara and began explaining it, whereupon a man said: "If the Daylamites had heard this, they would have accepted Islam." (3)
87 - And Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Abū Yamān narrated to us, from Ashʿath ibn Isḥāq, from Jaʿfar, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, he said: Whoever recites the Qur'an and then does not explain it is like a blind person or like a Bedouin. (4)
Notes
- (1) Hadith 84 - al-Ṭabarī's teacher: He is Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUbayda ibn Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. He is given a biography in al-Tahdhīb. His grandfather "Muḥammad", and his father's grandfather "Abū ʿUbayda"—whose name is "ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maʿn"—are also given biographies therein. We did not find a biography for his father "Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad".
- (2) In the manuscript and printed edition it is "Sālim"; see what preceded on p. 87, no. 1.
- (3) Reports 85–86 - The Hadith master Ibn Ḥajar mentioned them in al-Iṣāba 4: 93; he mentioned the first of them "in the narration of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj by way of Abū Muʿāwiya from al-Aʿmash." And he mentioned the second of them from the narration of "Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān from Qabīṣa from Sufyān"—who is al-Thawrī.
- (4) Report 87 - Ashʿath ibn Isḥāq ibn Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn ʿĀmir al-Qummī: trustworthy, Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him trustworthy. He has a biography in al-Kabīr by al-Bukhārī 1/1: 428, and in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim 1/1: 269. His teacher "Jaʿfar": he is Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīra al-Khuzāʿī al-Qummī. As for the narrator from Ashʿath, he is mentioned here under the name "Abū Yamān", and "Abū al-Yamān" is al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, who is from this generation, but it is not mentioned that he narrates from "Ashʿath". What is most likely in our view is that the correct wording is "Ibn Yamān narrated to us." Ibn Yamān is Yaḥyā ibn Yamān al-ʿIjlī al-Kūfī, and he is mentioned among the narrators from Ashʿath, and al-Bukhārī gave his biography in al-Kabīr 4/2: 313, saying: "He heard Sufyān al-Thawrī and Ashʿath al-Qummī."
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