Musnad al-Bazzar 377

✧ Abdullah b. Abbas

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، وَعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَا: نَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ: نَا عَوْفٌ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الْفَارِسِيِّ، قَالَ: نَا 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"، فَوَضَعْتُمُوهُمَا فِي مَكَانٍ وَاحِدٍ، مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ؟ فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ ؓ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَنْزِلُ عَلَيْهِ السُّوَرُ ذَوَاتُ الْعَدَدِ، فَكَانَ إِذَا نَزَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ آيَةٌ، قَالَ: ضَعُوهَا فِي السُّورَةِ الَّتِي يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا. وَكَانَتِ الْأَنْفَالُ مِنْ أَوَّلِ مَا نَزَلَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَبَرَاءَةٌ مِنْ آخِرِهَا نَزَلَ، وَكَانَتْ قِصَّتُهَا تُشْبِهُ قِصَّتَهَا، وَلَمْ يُبَيِّنْ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا، فَمِنْ ثَمَّ قَرَنَّا بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلَمْ نَكْتُبْ بَيْنَهُمَا بِسَطْرِ " بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

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Chain of narrators

Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And ʿAmrū b. ʿAlī
Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
ʿAwf
Yazīd al-Fārisī
Ibn ʿAbbās

✧ I said to Uthman, “What led you to take al-Anfal, which is one of the Mathani, and Bara’a, which is one of the Mi’in, and place them together without writing between them the line ‘Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim,’ and put them in one place? What led you to that?” Uthman ؓ said, “Surahs of varying numbers used to be revealed to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When a verse was revealed to him, he would say, ‘Place it in the surah in which such-and-such is mentioned.’ Al-Anfal was among the first revealed in Madinah, and Bara’a among the last revealed, and its story resembled its story. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not clarify anything for us about that, so for that reason we placed them together and did not write between them the line ‘Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim.’”

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