Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 420-471b
✧ Abdullah b. Abbas
"عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيم، فَقَالَ: هُوَ اسْمٌ مِنْ أَسْمَاءِ اللهِ، وَمَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ اسْمِ اللهِ الأَكْبَرِ إِلا كَمَا بَيْنَ سَوَادِ الْعَيْنِ وَبَيَاضهَا".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿAbbās
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"On the authority of Ibn 'Abbas that 'Uthman ibn 'Affan asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about 'Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim', and he said: 'It is one of the names of Allah, and between it and the Greatest Name of Allah is only as much as between the blackness of the eye and its whiteness.'"
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Notes
ابن النجار
machine translationIbn al-Najjār
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