al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4179
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وَقَالَ الْبَزَّارُ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْبُخَارِيُّ، ثَنَا أَيُّوبُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ، يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ قَالَ: إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
« أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ، لِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ مِنْهَا ظَهْرٌ وَبَطْنٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Bazzār
- Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī
- Ayyūb b. Sulaymān b. Bilāl
- Ibn Abū Ūways / Abū Bakr
- Sulaymān b. Bilāl
- Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān
- Abū Isḥāq
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- In al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ «The Qurʾān was revealed in seven letters, each of which has an outward and an inward meaning.»
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 821bSunan Abi Dawud 1478Musnad Ahmad 21172al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1046al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4059
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AHسُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AHابْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ ، يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), deemed soft by al-Azdī and al-Sājī without evidenced. 224 AHأَيُّوبُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقة ، لينه الأزدي والساجي بلا دليلحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديثحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالْبَزَّارُ
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