Musnad Abi Ya'la 5151
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وَعَنْ مُغِيرَةَ، عَنْ وَاصِلِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ:
لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ خَلِيلًا، لَاتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرِ بْنَ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ خَلِيلًا، وَلَكِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلُ اللهِ، وَإِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ نَزَلَ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ، لِكُلِّ آيَةٍ مِنْهَا ظَهْرٌ وَبَطْنٌ، وَلِكُلِّ حَدٍّ مَطْلَعٌ
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Chain of narrators
- Mughīrah
- Wāṣil b. Ḥayyān
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū al-Hudhayl
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ If I were to take a close friend from the people of the earth, I would have taken Abu Bakr b. Abi Quhafah as a close friend, but your companion is the close friend of Allah. The Quran was revealed in seven harfs; for every verse there is an outward and an inward, and for every limit there is a point of ascent.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 238وَعَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ لِكُلِّ آيَةٍ مِنْهَا ظَهْرٌ وَبَطْنٌ وَلِكُلِّ حَدٍّ مَطْلَعٌ» رَوَاهُ فِي شَرْحِ السُّنَّةِ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 467Musnad Ahmad 2432Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32379al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8067
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Khālid al-Qasrīعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 120 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died in the year 129 AH, al-Bukhārī listed him in the section of those who died from 150 AH to 160 AHوَاصِلِ بْنِ حَيَّانَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and meticulous (mutqin), except that he used to practise concealment (tadlīs), especially from Ibrāhīmd. 132 AH, or: 133 AH, or: 134 AH, or: 136 AHمُغِيرَةَثقة متقن إلا أنه كان يدلس ولا سيما عن إبراهيمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجرير بن عبد الحميدثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزهير بن حربثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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