Musnad Ahmad 399
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي الْفَارِسِيَّ قَالَ أَبِيأَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ وحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ يَزِيدَ قَالَ قَالَ لَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍقُلْتُ لِعُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى
قَالَ لَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: قُلْتُ لِعُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ: مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى أَنْ عَمَدْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَنْفَالِ، وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمَثَانِي، وَإِلَى بَرَاءَةٌ وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمِئِينَ فَقَرَنْتُمْ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلَمْ تَكْتُبُوا قَالَ ابْنُ جَعْفَرٍ: بَيْنَهُمَا سَطْرًا بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَوَضَعْتُمُوهَا فِي السَّبْعِ الطُّوَلِ مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ مِمَّا يَأْتِي عَلَيْهِ الزَّمَانُ يَنْزِلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ السُّوَرِ ذَوَاتِ الْعَدَدِ، وَكَانَ إِذَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِ الشَّيْءُ يَدْعُو بَعْضَ مَنْ يَكْتُبُ عِنْدَهُ يَقُولُ: ضَعُوا هَذَا فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا وَيُنْزَلُ عَلَيْهِ الْآيَاتُ فَيَقُولُ: ضَعُوا هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَيُنْزَلُ عَلَيْهِ الْآيَةُ فَيَقُولُ: ضَعُوا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَكَانَتِ الْأَنْفَالُ مِنْ أَوَائِلِ مَا أُنْزِلَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ، وَبَرَاءَةٌ مِنْ آخِرِ الْقُرْآنِ، فَكَانَتْ قِصَّتُهَا شَبِيهًا بِقِصَّتِهَا، فَقُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَلَمْ يُبَيِّنْ لَنَا أَنَّهَا مِنْهَا، وَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهَا مِنْهَا، فَمِنْ ثَمَّ قَرَنْتُ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ بَيْنَهُمَا سَطْرًا بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ قَالَ ابْنُ جَعْفَرٍ: وَوَضَعْتُهَا فِي السَّبْعِ الطُّوَلِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- ʿAwf
- Yazīd / al-Fārisī
- Abīʾaḥmad b. Ḥanbal Wḥaddathanā Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- ʿAwf
- Yazīd
- Lanā Ibn ʿAbbāsqult Liʿuthmān b. ʿAffān Mā Ḥamalakum
✧ Ibn 'Abbas said to us: I said to 'Uthman b. 'Affan: What made you take al-Anfal, which is one of the mathani, and Bara'ah, which is one of the mi'in, and join them together without writing - Ibn Ja'far said: between them - a line with Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim, and place them among the seven long surahs? What made you do that? 'Uthman said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would, over time, receive surahs of various numbers of verses. When something was revealed to him, he would call one of those who wrote for him and say, 'Place this in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned.' And verses would be revealed to him, and he would say, 'Place these verses in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned.' And a verse would be revealed to him, and he would say, 'Place this verse in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned.' Al-Anfal was among the first [surahs] revealed in Madinah, and Bara'ah was among the last of the Quran, and its story was similar to its story. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away without clarifying to us that it was part of it, and I thought that it was part of it. For that reason, I joined them together and did not write between them a line with Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim. Ibn Ja'far said: And I placed them among the seven long surahs.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Da'if (Darussalam) [ and its content is munkar | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
رواه موسى بن هلال العبدي عن عوف عن عسعس بن سلامة عن عثمان وخالفه يحيى القطان وابن علية وغندر وابن أبي عدي فرووه عن عوف عن يزيد الفارسي عن ابن عباس عن عثمان وهو الصواب
machine translationMūsā b. Hilāl al-ʿAbdī narrated it from ʿAwf, from ʿAsʿas b. Salāmah, from ʿUthmān. But Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn ʿUlayyah, Ghundar and Ibn Abī ʿAdī contradicted him, and narrated it from ʿAwf, from Yazīd al-Fārisī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from ʿUthmān, and this is the correct (ṣawāb) version.
in مسند أحمد, p. 400
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةقلت
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةقال لنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)يَزِيدَمقبولحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AHعَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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