Sunan ad-Darimi 3423
✧ The Virtue of the First Surah al-Baqarah and Ayat al-Kursi
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ حَدَّثَنِي أَيْفَعُ بْنُ عَبْدٍ الْكَلَاعِيُّ قَالَ
قَالَ رَجُلٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ سُورَةِ الْقُرْآنِ أَعْظَمُ؟ قَالَ «قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ» قَالَ فَأَيُّ آيَةٍ فِي الْقُرْآنِ أَعْظَمُ؟ قَالَ آيَةُ الْكُرْسِيِّ {اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ} [البقرة 255] قَالَ فَأَيُّ آيَةٍ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ تُحِبُّ أَنْ تُصِيبَكَ وَأُمَّتَكَ؟ قَالَ «خَاتِمَةُ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ خَزَائِنِ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ مِنْ تَحْتِ عَرْشِهِ أَعْطَاهَا هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةَ لَمْ تَتْرُكْ خَيْرًا مِنْ خَيْرِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا اشْتَمَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Mughīrah
- Ṣafwān
- Ayfaʿ b. ʿAbd al-Kalāʿī
✧ A man said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which surah of the Qur'an is greatest?' He said: 'Say: He is Allah, the One.' He said: 'Then which verse in the Qur'an is greatest?' He said: 'The Verse of the Kursi: {Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence.} [Al-Baqarah 255].' He said: 'Then which verse, O Prophet of Allah, do you love to reach you and your nation?' He said: 'The conclusion of Surat Al-Baqarah, for it is from the treasures of Allah's mercy beneath His Throne; He gave it to this nation, and it has not left out any good from the good of this world or the Hereafter except that it encompasses it.'
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
وهو مرسل أو معضل
machine translationIt is either a mursal (mursal) or a mu'ḍal (muʿḍal) report.
in مسند الدارمي, p. 3418
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2169وَعَنْ أَيْفَعَ بْنِ عَبْدٍ الْكَلَاعِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ سُورَةِ الْقُرْآنِ أَعْظَمُ؟ قَالَ: (قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ) قَالَ: فَأَيُّ آيَةٍ فِي الْقُرْآنِ أَعْظَمُ؟ قَالَ: آيَةُ الْكُرْسِيِّ (اللَّهُ لَا إِل
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- d. 106 AHأَيْفَع بْن عَبْد الْكَلَاعِيّحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 155 AH, or 158 AH, from Baqiyyah: 148 AH, and it is a mistakeصَفْوَانُثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AHأَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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