al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21186
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ، ثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
إِذَا قَرَأَ أَحَدُكُمْ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَلَمْ يَدْرِ مَا تَفْسِيرُهُ فَلْيَلْتَمِسْهُ فِي الشِّعْرِ فَإِنَّهُ دِيوَانُ الْعَرَبِ
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هذا هو الصحيح موقوف
machine translationThis is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report, as a statement of a Companion (mawqūf).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 21186
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- 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 الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 153 AHأُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍصدوق يهمعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), though his hearing of the biography (sīrah) is sound (ṣaḥīḥ)d. 270 AH or 271 AH or 272 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِضعيف ، وسماعه للسيرة صحيححدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِحدثنا
- d. 421 AHوَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍوأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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