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Sunan Abi Dawud 1478

'Allah Revealed The Qur'an According To Seven Ahruf'

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ عِنْدَ أَضَاةِ بَنِي غِفَارٍ فَأَتَاهُ جِبْرِيلُ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تُقْرِئَ أُمَّتَكَ عَلَى حَرْفٍ قَالَ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ مُعَافَاتَهُ وَمَغْفِرَتَهُ إِنَّ أُمَّتِي لاَ تُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ ثَانِيَةً فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَ هَذَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ سَبْعَةَ أَحْرُفٍ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تُقْرِئَ أُمَّتَكَ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ فَأَيُّمَا حَرْفٍ قَرَءُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَدْ أَصَابُوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ibn al-Muthanná
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. al-Ḥakam
  5. Mujāhid
  6. Ibn Abū Laylá
  7. Uba b. Kaʿb

The Prophet ﷺ was present at the pool of Banu Ghifar, Gabriel came to him and said: "Allah has commanded you to make your community read (the Qur'an) in one harf. He (the Prophet) said: 'I beg Allah His pardon and forgiveness; my community has not strength to do so'. He then came for the second time and told him the same thing till he reached up to seven harfs. Finally, he said: 'Allah has commanded you to make your community read (the Qur'an) in seven harfs; in whichever mode they read, that will be correct.

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahih Muslim (821)fawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 821bMusnad Ahmad 20514Musnad Ahmad 21172al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1046al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4059

Narrators

  1. Ubay b. Kaʿb
    One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AH
    أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistake
    ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقة
    عن
  3. Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
    مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
    عن
  4. al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah al-Kindī
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AH
    الْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
    عن
  5. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    نا
  6. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
    نا
  7. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
    ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  8. Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
    أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Commentaries

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