Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 2198
✧ The virtues of surahs and verses
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ، أَخْبَرَنا أَبُو مَنْصُورٍ النَّضْرَوِيُّ، حدثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ، حدثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، حدثنا عَتَّابُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ، حدثنا خُصَيْفٌ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ،
فِي قَوْلِهِ: {سَبْعًا مِنَ الْمَثَانِي} [الحجر: 87] يَقُولُ: " أَعْطَيْتُكَ سَبْعَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ آمُرُ وَأَنْهَى، وَأُبَشِّرُ وَأُنْذِرُ، وَأَضْرِبُ الْأَمْثَالَ وَأُعَدِّدُ النِّعَمَ، وَآتَيْتُكَ نَبَأَ الْقُرُونِ " وَهَذَا حَسَنٌ " غَيْرَ أَنَّ تَفْسِيرَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَوْلَى مِنْ غَيْرِهِ، وَيُحْتَمَلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمُرَادُ بِهِ الْجَمِيعَ، وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ، وَقَدْ قِيلَ: إِنَّ الْمَثَانِيَ هِيَ جَمِيعُ الْقُرْآنِ، قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: {اللهُ نَزَّلَ أَحْسَنَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابًا مُتَشَابِهًا مَثَانِيَ} [الزمر: 23] وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّيَ مَثَانِيَ لِأَنَّ الْقَصَصَ وَالْأَنْبَاءَ ثُنِّيَتْ فِيهِ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Naṣr b. Qatādah informed us, Abū Manṣūr al-Naḍrawī informed us, Aḥmad b. Najdah narrated to us, Saʿīd b. Manṣūr narrated to us, ʿAttāb b. Bashīr narrated to us, Khuṣayf narrated to us, from Ziyād b. Abī Maryam,
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Concerning His saying: {seven of the oft-repeated (verses)} [al-Ḥijr: 87], He says: "I have given you seven parts: I command and forbid, I give glad tidings and warn, I strike parables and enumerate blessings, and I have brought you the account of the generations." And this is good, "except that the explanation of the Prophet ﷺ is more deserving than that of anyone else, and it is possible that what is meant is all of them, and Allah knows best. And it has been said: the oft-repeated (mathānī) is the whole of the Qur'an. Allah the Exalted said: {Allah has sent down the best of speech, a Book consistent and oft-repeated} [al-Zumar: 23]. It was only called mathānī because the stories and accounts are repeated in it."
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