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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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 البزار, p. 377
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 المبشرةفقال
- 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 الصحابةنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)يَزِيدَ الْفَارِسِيِّمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AHعَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيعنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHوَعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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