Musnad Ahmad 499
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفُ بْنُ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ الْفَارِسِيُّحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
قُلْتُ لِعُثْمَانَ: مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى أَنْ عَمَدْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَنْفَالِ، وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمَثَانِي، وَإِلَى بَرَاءَةٌ وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمِئِينَ، فَقَرَنْتُمْ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلَمْ تَكْتُبُوا بَيْنَهُمَا سَطْرَ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ فَوَضَعْتُمُوهَا فِي السَّبْعِ الطُّوَلِ، فَمَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِمَّا يَأْتِي عَلَيْهِ الزَّمَانُ وَهُوَ يُنْزَلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ السُّوَرِ ذَوَاتِ الْعَدَدِ، فَكَانَ إِذَا نَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ الشَّيْءُ دَعَا بَعْضَ مَنْ يَكْتُبُ لَهُ، فَيَقُولُ: ضَعُوا هَذِهِ فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَإِذَا أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْآيَاتُ قَالَ: ضَعُوا هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَإِذَا أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْآيَةُ قَالَ: ضَعُوا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا قَالَ: وَكَانَتِ الْأَنْفَالِ مِنْ أَوَائِلِ مَا نَزَلَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَانَتْ بَرَاءَةٌ مِنْ آخِرِ مَا أُنْزِلَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ، قَالَ: فَكَانَتْ قِصَّتُهَا شَبِيهًا بِقِصَّتِهَا، فَظَنَنَّا أَنَّهَا مِنْهَا، وَقُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَلَمْ يُبَيِّنْ لَنَا أَنَّهَا مِنْهَا، فَمِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ قَرَنْتُ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ بَيْنَهُمَا سَطْرًا بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَوَضَعْتُهَا فِي السَّبْعِ الطُّوَلِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
- ʿAwf b. Abū Jamīlah
- Yazīd al-Fārisiyyuḥaddathanā Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ I said to Uthman: What prompted you to turn to al-Anfal, which is among the mathani, and to Bara'ah, which is among the mi'in, and join them together without writing between them the line "Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim," and you placed them in the seven long surahs? What prompted you to that? He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to have periods of time pass while surahs of numerous verses were being sent down to him. When something was sent down to him, he would call one of those who wrote for him and say: Put this in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned. And when verses were sent down to him, he would say: Put these verses in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned. And when a single verse was sent down to him, he would say: Put this verse in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned. He said: Al-Anfal was among the first of what was sent down in Madinah, and Bara'ah was among the last of what was sent down of the Qur'an. He said: Its story was similar to its story, so we thought it was from it. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was taken, and he had not made clear to us that it was from it. For that reason, I joined between them and did not write between them the line "Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim," and I placed them in the seven long surahs.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Da'if | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
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- 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. 500
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 المبشرةقال
- 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 الصحابةحدثنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)يَزِيدُ الْفَارِسِيُّمقبولحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AHعَوْفُ بْنُ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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