al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3955
✧ The Interpretation of Surah Iqra (Read) in the Name of Your Lord Who Created
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَافِظُ أَنْبَأَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَالِمٍ الْحَافِظُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنْبَأَ مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
كَانَ بِحِرَاءَ إِذْ أَتَاهُ الْمَلَكُ بِنَمَطٍ مِنْ دِيبَاجٍ فِيهِ مَكْتُوبٌ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ إِلَى {مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ}
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ ʿAlī b. Sālim al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Muḥammad b. Ḥammād
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq Anbaʾ Maʿmar
- ʿAmr b. Dīnār
- Jābir
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ He was at Hira when the angel came to him with a piece of silk brocade, on which was written: Read in the name of your Lord who created, up to {what he did not know}.
Notes
[العلق 5] فَسَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَلِيٍّ الْحَافِظَ يَقُولُ ذِكْرُ جَابِرٍ فِي إِسْنَادِهِ وَهْمٌ
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأنبأ
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a ḥāfiẓ; whoever weakened him was wrongd. 271 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍثقة حافظ لم يصب من ضعفهحدثنا
- عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَالِمٍ الْحَافِظُأنبأ
- d. 349 AHأَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَافِظُحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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