Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 2192
✧ The virtues of surahs and verses
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ فُورَكٍ، أَخْبَرَنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حدثنا يُونُسُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، حدثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، حدثنا عِمْرَانُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمَلِيحِ، عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ،
قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: " أُعْطِيتُ مَكَانَ التَّوْرَاةِ السَّبْعَ الطِّوَالَ، وَمَكَانَ الزَّبُورِ الْمِئِينَ، وَمَكَانَ الْإِنْجِيلِ الْمَثَانِيَ، وَفُضِّلْتُ بِالْمُفَصَّلِ " قَالَ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ: " وَالْأَشْبَهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمُرَادُ بِالسَّبْعِ فِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ السَّبْعَ الطِّوَالَ، وَالْمِئِينَ كُلَّ سُورَةٍ بَلَغَتْ مِائَةَ آيَةٍ فَصَاعِدًا، وَالْمَثَانِيَ: كُلَّ سُورَةٍ دُونَ الْمائتينِ، وَفَوْقَ الْمُفَصَّلِ، وَيَدُلُّ عَلَيْهِ حَدِيثُ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ حِينَ قَالَ لِعُثْمَانَ: مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَيَّ، إِنْ عَمَدْتُمْ إِلَى سُورَةِ بَرَاءَةَ وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمِئِينَ والْأَنْفَالِ، وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمَثَانِي فَقَرَنْتُمْ بهما، وَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَيُشْبِهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمُرَادُ بِالْمَثَانِي فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ وَقَدْ رُوِّينَا قَبْلَ هَذَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ مَا دَلَّ عَلَى ذَلِكَ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Bakr b. Fūrak informed us, ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar informed us, Yūnus b. Ḥabīb narrated to us, Abū Dāwūd narrated to us, ʿImrān narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Abū al-Malīḥ, from Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ,
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He said: The Prophet ﷺ said: "I was given the seven long surahs in place of the Torah, the hundreds (al-miʾīn) in place of the Psalms, the oft-repeated (al-mathānī) in place of the Gospel, and I was favored with the mufaṣṣal." Al-Bayhaqī, may God have mercy on him, said: "The most likely meaning of the 'seven' in this hadith is the seven long surahs; the hundreds (al-miʾīn) are every surah that reaches a hundred verses or more; and the oft-repeated (al-mathānī) is every surah of fewer than two hundred verses and above the mufaṣṣal. This is indicated by the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās when he said to ʿUthmān: What moved you to do this against me, that you went to Surah Barāʾah, which is among the hundreds, and to al-Anfāl, which is among the oft-repeated, and joined them together? And he mentioned the hadith. It is also likely that the oft-repeated (al-mathānī) means the Opening of the Book (al-Fātiḥah), and before this we have narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, what indicates that."
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