Book 65: Commentary on the Holy Qur’an (Tafsir)
Sahih al-Bukhari
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Musaddad narrated to us that Yahya (bin Sa'id Qattan) told us. He narrated from Shu'bah that he said: Khubaib bin Abdur Rahman told me. He narrated from Hafs bin Asim (bin Umar bin Khattab), Hafs from Hazrat Abu Sa'id bin Mu'alla (ra), that he said: I was offering Prayer (Salat) in the mosque. The Messenger of Allah (saw) called me. I did not answer him. Then I said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! I was offering Prayer. He (saw) said: “Has Allah not said: “respond to Allah, and the Messenger when he calls you” (Qur’an 8:25)?” Then he (saw) said to me: “Before you leave the mosque, I shall teach you a Surah which is the greatest in grandeur of all the Surahs of the Qur’an.” Then he took my hand. When he intended to leave (the mosque), I said to him: Did you not say: I shall teach you a Surah which is the greatest in grandeur of all the Surahs of the Qur’an? He (saw) said: ““All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds” (Qur’an 1:2). This is the seven oft-repeated verses (as-Sab' al-Mathani) and the Grand Qur’an which has been given to me.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4475
Abdullah bin Yusuf (Tinnisi) narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Sumayy, Sumayy from Abu Salih (Dhakwan), Abu Salih from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “When the Imam says: “those who have not incurred Thy displeasure, and those who have not gone astray” (Qur’an 1:7), then say Amin. He whose saying (of Amin) coincides with the saying (of Amin) of the angels, his sins that have gone before will be covered and forgiven.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4476
Muslim bin Ibrahim told us that Hisham (Dastuwa'i) narrated to us that Qatadah told us. He narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra), Hazrat Anas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). And Khalifah (bin Khayyat) also said to me that Yazid bin Zurai' narrated to us that Sa'id told us. He narrated from Qatadah, Qatadah from Hazrat Anas (ra), Hazrat Anas (ra) from the Prophet (saw), that he (saw) said: “The believers will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection and will say: If only we could obtain someone's intercession with our Lord. They will come to Hazrat Adam (as) and say: You are the father of mankind. Allah created you with His own hand, made the angels obedient to you and taught you the names of all things. So intercede for us with your Lord, that He may relieve us from this condition of ours. He will say: I am not in that position (to intercede), and he will remember his fault and feel ashamed. (He will say:) Go to Noah (as), for he is the first Messenger whom Allah sent to the people of the earth. They will come to him. Hazrat Noah (as) will say: I am not in that position (to intercede), and he will remember the request he had made to his Lord, that is, a request about something of which he had no knowledge. He will be ashamed (of it) and will say: Go to the Friend of the Gracious (Khalil-ur-Rahman). So they will go to him. And (the Friend of the Gracious) will say: I am not in that position (to intercede). Go to Moses (as). He is a servant with whom Allah spoke and to whom He gave the Torah. So the people will come to him. Hazrat Moses (as) will say: I am not in that position (to intercede), and he will remember the killing of the person whom he had slain without that person having killed anyone. He will be ashamed before his Lord and will say: Go to Jesus (as), who was the servant of Allah, His Messenger, the Word of Allah and a spirit from Him. Hazrat Jesus (as) will say: I am not in that position. Go to Muhammad (saw), who is such a servant that Allah protected him from sins, both before and after. So the people will come to me. I shall go and seek permission from my Lord, and permission will be granted to me. When I see my Lord, I shall fall down in prostration (Sajdah), and He will leave me in prostration for as long as Allah wills. Then it will be said: Raise your head. Ask and you will be given, speak and you will be heard, intercede and your intercession will be accepted. Then I shall raise my head and praise Him with the praise which He will teach me, and after that I shall intercede, and He will set a limit for me, and I shall admit people (within that limit) into Paradise. Then I shall go back to Him again, and when I see my Lord, (I shall fall into prostration) in the same way. After that I shall intercede, and He will set a limit for me, and I shall admit people (within that limit) into Paradise. Then I shall return to Him a third time and a fourth time, and I shall say: Now none remain in the Fire except those about whose remaining the Qur’an has spoken and whose long stay is inevitable.” Abu Abdullah (Imam Bukhari (rh)) said: By illa man habasahul Qur’an (except those whom the Qur’an has held back) is meant this saying of Allah, the Exalted: khalidina fiha (they will abide therein for a long time).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4477
Uthman bin Abi Shaibah narrated to me. (He said:) Jarir told us. He narrated from Mansur, Mansur from Abu Wa'il, Abu Wa'il from Amr bin Shurahbil, he from Hazrat Abdullah (bin Mas'ud (ra)). He said: I asked the Prophet (saw): Which sin is the greatest in the sight of Allah? He (saw) said: “That you set up an equal to Allah, although He created you.” I said: This is indeed a great sin. I asked: Then (after that) which one? He (saw) said: “And that you kill your children for fear that they will eat with you.” I asked: Then which one? He (saw) said: “That you commit adultery with the wife of your neighbour.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4478
Abu Nu'aim narrated to us. (He said:) Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Abdul Malik, Abdul Malik from Hazrat Amr bin Huraith (ra), Hazrat Amr (ra) from Hazrat Sa'id bin Zaid (ra). He said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Truffles are also a kind of manna (Mann), and their water is a cure for the eyes.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4479
Muhammad narrated to me. (He said:) Abdur Rahman bin Mahdi told us. He narrated from (Abdullah) bin Mubarak, he from Ma'mar, Ma'mar from Hammam bin Munabbih, Hammam from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “The Children of Israel were told: “enter the gate submissively and say: ‘God! forgive us our sins.’” (Qur’an 2:59) (that is, they should go on seeking forgiveness). But they entered crawling on their buttocks, changed the command to seek forgiveness, and instead of Hittah began to say: The grains that are in the ear.”
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Abdullah bin Munir narrated to us. He heard from Abdullah bin Bakr. (He said:) Humaid told us, narrating from Hazrat Anas (ra), that he used to say: Hazrat Abdullah bin Salam (ra) heard of the arrival of the Messenger of Allah (saw) while he was at that time gathering fruit in a piece of (his) land. (On hearing it) he came to the Prophet (saw) and said: I am going to ask you about three things which no one knows except a Prophet: What is the first of the signs of the Hour? What will be the first food of the people of Paradise? And why does a child resemble its mother or its father? He (saw) said: “Gabriel has just now told me about these things.” Hazrat Abdullah bin Salam (ra) said: Gabriel? He (saw) said: “Yes.” Hazrat Abdullah bin Salam (ra) said: That (Gabriel) is the enemy of the Jews among the angels. Then he (saw) recited this verse: “Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel—for he it is who has caused it to descend on thy heart…” (Qur’an 2:98). “The first sign of the Hour will be a fire that will gather people from the east to the west, and the first food of the people of Paradise will be the extra lobe of the fish's liver, and if the man's fluid precedes the woman's fluid, the child resembles him, and if the woman's fluid precedes, it makes the child resemble her.” Hazrat Abdullah bin Salam (ra) said: I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah (saw). O Messenger of Allah (saw)! The Jews are a people much given to fabrication. If they learn that I have accepted Islam before you ask them (about me), they will slander me. Then the Jews came, and the Prophet (saw) asked: “What kind of man is Abdullah among you?” They said: He is the best of us and the son of the best of us, and our chief and the son of our chief. He (saw) said: “Tell me then, if Abdullah bin Salam accepts Islam (will you also do so)?” They said: May Allah protect him from that. Hearing this, Hazrat Abdullah (ra) came out and said: I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad (saw) is the Messenger of Allah (saw). They said: He is the worst of us and the son of the worst of us, and they began to speak ill of him. Hazrat Abdullah bin Salam (ra) said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! This is what I feared.
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Amr bin Ali told us. Yahya (bin Sa'id Qattan) narrated to us that Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Habib (bin Abi Thabit), Habib from Sa'id bin Jubair, Sa'id from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). He said: Hazrat Umar (ra) used to say: The best reciter of the Qur’an among us is Ubayy (bin Ka'b (ra)), and the best judge among us is Ali (ra), and we leave one thing of Ubayy (ra), namely that Ubayy (ra) says: I will not leave any (reading) which I heard from the Messenger of Allah (saw), whereas Allah, the Exalted, has said: “Whatever Sign We abrogate or cause to be forgotten…” (Qur’an 2:107).
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Abul Yaman narrated to us that Shu'aib told us, narrating from Abdullah bin Abi Husain (who said) that Nafi' bin Jubair told us. He narrated from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Allah, the Exalted, says: The son of Adam has belied Me, and it did not befit him, and he has abused Me, and it did not befit him. His belying Me is that he imagined that I cannot recreate him as he was before, and his abusing Me is his saying that I have a son. I am Holy, far above taking a wife or a son.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4483
Musaddad narrated to us. He narrated from Yahya bin Sa'id (Qattan), Yahya from Humaid (Tawil), Humaid from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said that Hazrat Umar (ra) said: In three matters my opinion turned out to be in accordance with the will of Allah, or he said: In three matters my Lord did according to my opinion. I said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! If you were to make the Station of Abraham (Maqam Ibrahim) a place of Prayer (it would be good). And I said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! Good and bad people come to you; if you were to tell the Mothers of the Believers (Ummahatul Mu'minin) to observe the veil (it would be good). Thereupon Allah revealed the command of the veil (Hijab). He used to say: And the news reached me that the Prophet (saw) had shown displeasure with one of his wives. I went to his wives. I said: If you desist (well and good), otherwise Allah will give His Messenger (saw) in your place (women) better than you. When I went to one of his wives, she exclaimed: Umar (ra)! Does the Messenger of Allah (saw) not admonish his wives, that you have started admonishing them? Finally Allah revealed this: “It may be that, if he divorce you, his Lord will give him instead wives better than you—resigned…” (Qur’an 66:6). Ibn Abi Maryam said: Yahya bin Ayyub narrated to us that Humaid told me. (He used to say) that he heard Hazrat Anas (ra). He narrated this same narration from Hazrat Umar (ra).
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Isma'il (bin Abi Uwais) narrated to us. He said: Malik told me. He narrated from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Salim bin Abdullah, that Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abi Bakr informed Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra), narrating from Hazrat Aishah (ra), the wife of the Prophet (saw), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Do you not know that your people built the Ka'bah and kept it smaller than the foundations of Abraham (as)?” I said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! Will you not then restore it on the foundations of Abraham? He (saw) said: “Were it not that your people have only recently come out of disbelief (I would have done so).” Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra) said (on hearing this): If Hazrat Aishah (ra) heard this from the Messenger of Allah (saw), then I think that the only reason the Messenger of Allah (saw) did not kiss the two corners adjoining the Black Stone (Hajar Aswad) was that the House of Allah had not been built completely on the foundations of Hazrat Abraham (as).
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Muhammad bin Bashshar told us that Uthman bin Umar narrated to us that Ali bin Mubarak told us. He narrated from Yahya bin Abi Kathir, Yahya from Abu Salamah, Abu Salamah from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that he said: The People of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and explain its meaning to the Muslims in Arabic. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Neither confirm the People of the Book nor belie them, and say: “We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us…” (Qur’an 2:137).”
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Abu Nu'aim narrated to us that he heard from Zuhair. He narrated from Abu Ishaq, Abu Ishaq from Hazrat Bara' (bin Azib) (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) offered Prayer (Salat) facing Baitul Maqdis for sixteen or seventeen months, and he wished that his direction would be towards the House of Allah (Baitullah). He offered the Asr Prayer (facing the House of Allah), and some people also offered this Prayer with him. Then one of those who had offered this Prayer with him went out and passed by the people of a mosque while they were bowing (in Ruku'). He said: I swear by Allah and bear witness that I have offered Prayer with the Prophet (saw) facing Mecca. So they turned, in the very state in which they were, towards the House of Allah. And those who had died while still on the former Qiblah, before it was changed towards the House of Allah, were (people who had been) martyred (in battles). We did not know what to say about them. Therefore Allah revealed: “And it does not behove Allah to let your faith go in vain; surely, Allah is Compassionate and Merciful to the people” (Qur’an 2:144).
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Yusuf bin Rashid narrated to us that Jarir and Abu Usamah told us. They narrated from A'mash, A'mash from Abu Salih, and these are the words of Jarir. And Abu Usamah said that Abu Salih told us, narrating from Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra). He said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “On the Day of Resurrection Noah (as) will be called. He will say: O my Lord! Here I am, at Your service. And He will ask: Did you convey (My command)? He will say: Yes. Then his people will be asked: Did he convey (My command) to you? They will say: No warner came to us. Then He will ask: Who will bear witness for you? Noah (as) will say: Muhammad (saw) and his Ummah. And they will bear witness that he did indeed convey (the command), and “the Messenger of God may be a guardian over you” (Qur’an 2:144). And this is what Allah, exalted be His mention, says: “And thus have We made you an exalted nation, that you may be guardians over men, and the Messenger of God may be a guardian over you” (Qur’an 2:144).” And al-wasat means al-'adl (that is, of the highest rank).
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Musaddad narrated to us that Yahya (bin Sa'id Qattan) told us. He narrated from Sufyan (Thauri), Sufyan from Abdullah bin Dinar, he from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra), that while the people were offering the morning Prayer (Salat) in the Mosque of Quba, a man came and said: Allah has revealed Qur’an to the Prophet (saw) that he should make the Ka'bah the Qiblah. So you too make it your Qiblah. Then (on hearing this) they turned their faces towards the Ka'bah.
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Ali bin Abdullah (Madini) narrated to us that Mu'tamir (bin Sulaiman) told us. He narrated from his father, his father from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: Of those who offered Prayer (Salat) towards both Qiblahs, no one remains except me.
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Khalid bin Makhlad told us that Sulaiman narrated to us that Abdullah bin Dinar told me, narrating from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra): While the people were once in the morning Prayer (Salat) at Quba, a man came to them. He said: Qur’an has been revealed to the Messenger of Allah (saw) tonight, and he has been commanded to turn his face towards the Ka'bah. Listen! You too make it your Qiblah. The people's faces were (at that time) towards Syria. (On hearing this) they turned their faces towards the Ka'bah.
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Yahya bin Qaza'ah narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Abdullah bin Dinar, Abdullah from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra). He said: While the people were once in the morning Prayer (Salat) at Quba, someone came to them. He said: Qur’an has come down to the Prophet (saw) tonight, and the command has been given that the Ka'bah be made the Qiblah. So you too make the Ka'bah your Qiblah. Their faces were towards Syria. (On hearing this) they turned towards the Ka'bah.
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Muhammad bin Muthanna narrated to us that Yahya (bin Sa'id) told us. He narrated from Sufyan (Thauri) that Abu Ishaq narrated to me. He said: I heard Hazrat Bara' (ra). He used to say: We offered Prayer (Salat) with the Prophet (saw) facing Baitul Maqdis for sixteen or seventeen months. Then he turned his face towards the Qiblah.
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Musa bin Isma'il narrated to us that Abdul Aziz bin Muslim told us that Abdullah bin Dinar narrated to us. He said: I heard Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra). He used to say: While the people were in the morning Prayer (Salat) at Quba, a man came to them and said: Qur’an has been revealed tonight, and the Holy Prophet (saw) has been commanded to make the Ka'bah the Qiblah. So you too make it your Qiblah. And they turned just as they were and faced the Ka'bah, and at that time the people's faces were towards Syria.
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