Sirat Ibn Hisham 346
What God revealed concerning the story of the Companions of the Cave
[ سَبَبُ نُزُولِ آيَةِ وَلَا تَجْهَرْ إلَخْ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْحُصَيْنِ، مَوْلَى عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ، أَنَّ عِكْرِمَةَ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ حَدَّثَهُمْ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ حَدَّثَهُمْ: إنَّمَا أُنْزِلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ: وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَابْتَغِ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ سَبِيلًا وَابْتَغِ مِنْ أَجْلِ أُولَئِكَ النَّفَرِ. يَقُولُ: لَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ فَيَتَفَرَّقُوا عَنْكَ، وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا فَلَا يَسْمَعْهَا مَنْ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَسْمَعَهَا مِمَّنْ يَسْتَرِقُ ذَلِكَ دُونَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُ يَرْعَوِي إلَى بَعْضِ مَا يَسْمَعُ فَيَنْتَفِعَ بِهِ
Translation
✧ [The reason for the revelation of the verse “And do not be loud” etc.] Ibn Isḥāq said: Dāwūd b. al-Ḥuṣayn, mawlā of ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān, related to me that ʿIkrimah, mawlā of Ibn ʿAbbās, related to them that ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās ؓ related to them: This verse was revealed only: “And do not be loud in your prayer, nor be silent therein, but seek between that a way” (Q 17:110), and seek [a way] on account of those men. He says: Do not be loud in your prayer, lest they scatter from you; and do not be silent in it, lest the one who loves to hear it among those who listen secretly apart from them should not hear it, so that he might turn back to some of what he hears and benefit from it.
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