al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7933
✧ How was the Quran revealed?
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أَخْبَرَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجٌ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ مَاهَكَ قَالَ §إِنِّي لَعِنْدَ عَائِشَةَ أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ جَاءَهَا عِرَاقِيٌّ فَقَالَ أَيْ أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَرِينِي مُصْحَفَكِ قَالَتْ «لِمَ؟» قَالَ «أُرِيدُ أُؤلِّفُ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنَ فَإِنَّا نَقْرَؤُهُ عِنْدَنَا غَيْرَ مُؤَلَّفٍ» قَالَتْ
وَيْحَكَ وَمَا يَضُرُّكَ أَيَّهُ قَرَأْتَ قَبْلُ؟ إِنَّمَا نُزِّلَ أَوَّلُ مَا نُزِّلَ سُورَةٌ مِنَ الْمُفَصَّلِ فِيهَا ذِكْرُ الْجَنَّةِ وَالنَّارِ حَتَّى إِذَا ثَابَ النَّاسُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ نُزِّلَ الْحَلَالُ وَالْحَرَامُ وَلَوْ نُزِّلَ أَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ لَا تَشْرَبُوا الْخَمْرَ لَقَالُوا «لَا نَدَعُ شُرْبَ الْخَمْرِ وَلَوْ نُزِّلَ أَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ لَا تَزْنُوا» لَقَالُوا لَا نَدَعُ الزِّنَا وَإِنَّهُ أُنْزِلَتْ {وَالسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَى وَأَمَرٌ} [القمر 46] بِمَكَّةَ وَإِنِّي جَارِيَةٌ أَلْعَبُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ وَمَا نَزَلَتْ سُورَةُ الْبَقَرَةِ وَالنِّسَاءِ إِلَّا وَأَنَا عِنْدَهُ قَالَ «فَأَخَرَجَتْ إِلَيْهِ الْمُصْحَفَ فَأَمَلَّتْ عَلَيْهِ آيَ السُّوَرِ»
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Chain of narrators
- Yūsuf b. Saʿīd
- Ḥajjāj
- Ibn Jurayj
- Yūsuf b. Māhak
- Innī Laʿind ʿĀʾishah Idh Jāʾahā ʿIrāqī
- Ay Arīnī Muṣḥafak
- Lim
- Urīd Uʾllif ʿAlayh al-Qurān Faʾinnā Naqraʾuh ʿIndanā Ghayr Muʾallaf
✧ Woe to you! What harm is it to you whichever you recite first? The first thing that was revealed was a surah from the Mufassal containing mention of Paradise and Hell, until when people became steadfast in Islam, the halal and haram were revealed. If the first thing revealed had been 'Do not drink wine,' they would have said, 'We will never give up drinking wine.' If the first thing revealed had been 'Do not commit adultery,' they would have said, 'We will never give up adultery.' It was revealed in Makkah, 'And the Hour is more grievous and more bitter' [al-Qamar 46], while I was a young girl playing around Muhammad ﷺ. Surah al-Baqarah and an-Nisa were not revealed except while I was with him. She said, 'She brought out the mushaf to him and dictated to him the verses of the surahs.'
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