al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4185
✧ The Writing of the Mushaf
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، ثَنَا أَبُو وَائِلٍ الْقَاصُّ الْمُرَادِيُّ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ هَانِئَ الْبَرْبَرِيَّ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ ( ؓ ) يَقُولُ:
لَمَّا كَانَ عُثْمَانُ ؓ يَكْتُبُ الْمَصَاحِفَ شَكُّوا فِي ثَلَاثِ آيَاتٍ، فَكَتَبُوهَا فِي كَتِفِ شَاةٍ، ( وَأَرْسَلُونِي ) إِلَى أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ وَزَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ ؓ، ( فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِمَا، فَنَاوَلْتُهَا إِلَى ) أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ ؓ، فَقَرَأَهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا: لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِلْخَلْقِ ذَلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ، فَمَحَى بِيَدِهِ ؓ أَحَدَ اللَّامَيْنِ، وَكَتَبَهَا: لا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللهِ قَالَ: وَوَجَدَ ؓ فِيهَا: « انْظُرْ إِلَى طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمْ يَتَسَنَّ »، فَمَحَى النُّونَ وَكَتَبَهَا لَمْ يَتَسَنَّهْ وَقَرَأَ ؓ مِنْهَا: « فَأَمْهِلِ الْكَافِرِينَ » فَمَحَى الْأَلِفَ وَكَتَبَهَا ( فَمَهِّلِ )، قَالَ ؓ: وَلَا أَعْلَمُهُ إِلَّا قَالَ فِيهَا، فَنَظَرَ فِيهَا زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ ؓ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقْتُ بِهَا إِلَى عُثْمَانَ ؓ، فَأَثْبَتُوهَا فِي الْمَصَاحِفِ كَذَلِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Abū Wāʾil al-Qāṣ al-Murādī al-Ṣanʿānī
- Hāniʾ al-Barbarī a freed slave of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
✧ When Uthman ؓ was writing the mushafs, they were uncertain about three verses, so they wrote them on the shoulder blade of a sheep. And they sent me to Ubayy b. Ka'b and Zayd b. Thabit ؓ. I entered upon them and handed it to Ubayy b. Ka'b ؓ, and he read it and found in it: "There is no alteration for the creation; that is the upright religion." So he wiped away with his hand ؓ one of the two lams and wrote it: "There is no alteration for Allah's creation." He said: And he found ؓ in it: "Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time." So he wiped away the nun and wrote it: "it has not changed with time." And he read ؓ from it: "So give respite to the disbelievers." So he wiped away the alif and wrote it: "So give respite." He said ؓ: And I do not know him except that he said regarding it, then Zayd b. Thabit ؓ looked at it, then I departed with it to Uthman ؓ, and they established it in the mushafs as such.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد ضعيف
machine translationThis chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in المطالب العالية, p. 4185
Narrators
- Famous Companion, scribe of the revelationd. 45 AH, also said: 40 AH, also said: 42 AH, also said: 43 AH, also said: 48 AH, also said: 51 AH, also said: 52 AH, also said: 54 AH, also said: 55 AH, also said: 56 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور ، كاتب الوحيسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)هَانِئَ الْبَرْبَرِيَّ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَصدوقسمعت
- Ibn Maʿīn considered him trustworthy (thiqah), while the statements of Ibn Ḥibbān about him were inconsistent (iḍṭaraba)d. between 161 and 170 AHأَبُو وَائِلٍ الْقَاصُّ الْمُرَادِيُّ الصَّنْعَانِيُّوثقه ابن معين ، واضطرب فيه كلام ابن حبانحدثنا
- 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 يتشيعأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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