Book 66: The Merits of the Holy Qur’an
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 4978
Ubaidullah bin Musa narrated to us. He narrated from Shaiban (bin Abdur Rahman), Shaiban from Yahya (bin Abi Kathir), Yahya from Abu Salamah. He said: Hazrat Aishah and Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) told me. Both of them said: The Prophet (saw) stayed in Makkah for ten years and in Madinah too for ten years. The Qur’an was being revealed to him.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4979
Ubaidullah bin Musa narrated to us. He narrated from Shaiban, Shaiban from Yahya, Yahya from Abu Salamah. He said: Hazrat Aishah and Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) informed me. Both of them said: The Prophet (saw) stayed in Makkah for ten years, the Qur’an being revealed to him, and in Madinah for ten years.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4980
Musa bin Isma'il narrated to us that Mu'tamir (bin Sulaiman) told us. He said: I heard my father. He narrated from Abu Uthman (Nahdi). He said: I have been told that Gabriel (as) came to the Prophet (saw) while Hazrat Umm Salamah (ra) was with him. He began to talk with him. The Prophet (saw) asked Hazrat Umm Salamah (ra): “Who is this?” or he said some such words. Hazrat Umm Salamah (ra) said: This is Dihyah (Kalbi (ra)). When he had got up and gone, she said: By Allah! I kept taking him for him, until I heard the sermon of the Prophet (saw) in which he related the incident of the coming of Gabriel (as), or said something like that. My father (Sulaiman) said: I asked Abu Uthman (Nahdi): From whom did you hear this? He said: From Hazrat Usamah bin Zaid (ra).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4981
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Laith (bin Sa'd) told us. He narrated from Sa'id Maqburi, Sa'id from his father (Kaisan), he from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) said: “There is no prophet among the prophets who was not given such signs by means of which people believed in him; and the sign that has been given to me is this revelation which Allah has sent to me. Therefore I hope that on the Day of Resurrection I shall have more followers than all the prophets.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4982
Amr bin Muhammad narrated to us that Ya'qub bin Ibrahim told us. (He said:) My father told us. He narrated from Salih bin Kaisan, Salih from Ibn Shihab. He said: Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra) told me that Allah the Exalted sent revelation to His Messenger (saw) in succession before his death. Close to his death, revelation came in great abundance. Then after that the Messenger of Allah (saw) passed away.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4983
Abu Nu'aim narrated to us that Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Aswad bin Qais. He said: I heard Hazrat Jundub (bin Abdullah Bajali) (ra). He used to say: The Prophet (saw) fell ill and did not get up for Tahajjud for a night or two. Then (seeing this) a woman came to him and said: Muhammad (saw), I think your Satan has now abandoned you. Upon this Allah, the Mighty and Glorious, revealed this (Surah): “By the growing brightness of the forenoon, And by the night when it becomes still, Thy Lord has not forsaken thee, nor is He displeased with thee” (Qur’an 93:2-4).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4984
Abul Yaman narrated to us that Shu'aib told us. He narrated from Zuhri that Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra) also told me. He said: Hazrat Uthman (ra) commanded Zaid bin Thabit (ra), Sa'id bin As (ra), Abdullah bin Zubair (ra) and Abdur Rahman (ra) bin Harith bin Hisham to write (the Surahs) into copies of the Qur’an (Mushafs), and he said to them: When you and Zaid bin Thabit (ra) differ about the Arabic idiom of the Qur’an, write that verse according to the idiom of the Quraish, for the Qur’an was revealed according to their idiom. So they did just that.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4985
Abu Nu'aim narrated to us that Hammam (bin Yahya) told us. He said: Ata (bin Abi Rabah) narrated to us. Also Musaddad said that Yahya (bin Sa'id Qattan) told us. He narrated from Ibn Juraij. He said: Ata (bin Abi Rabah) told me. He said: Safwan bin Ya'la bin Umayyah told me that Hazrat Ya'la (ra) used to say: Would that I could see the Messenger of Allah (saw) at the time when revelation is being sent down to him. Then, when the Prophet (saw) was at Ji'ranah, there was a cloth over him which had shaded him, and some of his Companions were with him. Meanwhile a man came to him who was smeared with perfume. He said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! What do you think about a man who enters the state of consecration (Ihram) in a cloak when the cloak is smeared with perfume? The Prophet (saw) kept looking for a while. Then revelation came to him. Hazrat Umar (ra) signalled to Ya'la (ra) to come. Hazrat Ya'la (ra) came and put his head inside. What did he see but that his face was red and he was breathing loudly. He remained in this state for a while; then that state left him. And he asked: “Where is the man who just asked me about the Umrah?” The man was searched for and brought to the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Wash off three times the perfume that is on you, and take off the cloak; then do in your Umrah what you do in your Hajj.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4986
Musa bin Isma'il narrated to us. He narrated from Ibrahim bin Sa'd, Ibrahim from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Ubaid bin Sabbaq, Ubaid from Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (ra). He said: When the people of Yamamah were martyred, Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) sent for me, and I saw that Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (ra) was also with him. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) said: Umar (ra) came to me and said: In the Battle of Yamamah many reciters of the Qur’an have been killed, and I fear that war may sweep away the reciters in other battlefields as well, and in this way much of the Qur’an will be lost. Therefore I think it proper that you give orders for the Qur’an to be collected together. I said to Umar (ra): How shall we do a thing which the Messenger of Allah (saw) did not do? Umar (ra) said: By Allah, this work is good. Umar (ra) kept urging me again and again until Allah opened my breast for this work, and in this matter my opinion too is the same as Umar's (ra) was. Zaid (ra) used to say: Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) said: You are a young, intelligent man; we have no suspicion about you, and you used to write down the revelation in the time of the Messenger of Allah (saw) as well. Therefore search for the Qur’an wherever it may be and collect it in one place. By Allah! If they had burdened me with moving one of the mountains from one place to another, this would not have been as heavy for me as what they assigned me regarding collecting the Qur’an. I said: How can you do a thing which the Messenger of Allah (saw) did not do? Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) said: By Allah, this work is good. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) kept urging me again and again until Allah opened my breast for that work for which He had opened the breasts of Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Umar (ra), and I began to search for the Qur’an. I kept collecting it from palm stalks, thin stones and the breasts of men, until I found the last part of Surah at-Taubah with Abu Khuzaimah (ra) (Ansari). I did not find it with anyone except him, and it is this: “laqad ja'akum rasulun min anfusikum azizun alaihi ma anittum” (“Surely, a Messenger has come unto you from among yourselves; grievous to him is that you should fall into trouble” (Qur’an 9:128)) up to the end of Surah at-Taubah. These sheets remained with Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) until Allah caused him to die. Then they remained with Hazrat Umar (ra) during his lifetime. Then they remained with Hazrat Hafsah (ra), the daughter of Hazrat Umar (ra).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4987
Musa (bin Isma'il) narrated to us that Ibrahim (bin Sa'd) told us. Ibn Shihab narrated to us. Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra) narrated to him (he said) that Hazrat Hudhaifah bin Yaman (ra) came to Hazrat Uthman (ra), and he was fighting along with the people of Syria to conquer Armenia and along with the people of Iraq to conquer Azerbaijan. The people's differences regarding the reading (of the Qur’an) made Hazrat Hudhaifah (ra) anxious. Hazrat Hudhaifah (ra) said to Hazrat Uthman (ra): O Commander of the Faithful! Take care of this Ummah before they begin to differ about the Book as the Jews and the Christians differed. Hazrat Uthman (ra) sent word to Hazrat Hafsah (ra): Send us the Mushaf so that we may have (the Surahs) copied into other copies; then we will return it to you. Hazrat Hafsah (ra) sent those (sheets) to Hazrat Uthman (ra), and he commanded Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (ra), Hazrat Abdullah bin Zubair (ra), Hazrat Sa'id bin As (ra) and Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Harith bin Hisham (ra), and they copied those (Surahs) into the copies. And Hazrat Uthman (ra) said to the group of the three Quraishis: When you and Zaid bin Thabit (ra) differ about any reading of the Qur’an, write it according to the idiom of the Quraish, for the Qur’an was revealed according to their idiom. They did just that. When they had copied those sheets into the copies, Hazrat Uthman (ra) returned the sheets to Hazrat Hafsah (ra), and sent one copy of these (copies) to every region, and he ordered that whatever else (of any verse of the Qur’an) there was on any scrap or sheet, apart from this Qur’an, should all be burnt.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4988
Ibn Shihab said: And Kharijah bin Zaid bin Thabit told me. He heard Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (ra). He said: When we copied the written copy of the Qur’an (Mushaf), I could not find a verse of Surah Al-Ahzab which I used to hear the Messenger of Allah (saw) recite. We searched for it, and finally we found that verse with Hazrat Khuzaimah bin Thabit Ansari (ra), namely: “Among the believers are men who have been true to the covenant they made with Allah.” (Qur’an 33:24) So we included it in the Mushaf in the Surah to which it belonged.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4989
Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith (bin Sa'd) told us. He narrated from Yunus, Yunus from Ibn Shihab, that Ibn Sabbaq said: Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (ra) used to say: Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) sent for me. He said: You used to write down the revelation for the Messenger of Allah (saw), so now search for the Qur’an wherever it may be. So I searched, until I found the last two verses of Surah At-Taubah with Hazrat Abu Khuzaimah Ansari (ra). I did not find them with anyone other than him. (They are:) “Surely, a Messenger has come unto you from among yourselves” (Qur’an 9:128) …
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4990
Ubaidullah bin Musa narrated to us. He narrated from Isra'il, Isra'il from Abu Ishaq, Abu Ishaq from Hazrat Bara' (ra). He said: When this verse was revealed: “Those of the believers who sit still … and those who strive in the cause of Allah … are not equal” (Qur’an 4:96), the Prophet (saw) said: “Call Zaid (ra) to me, and let him bring the tablet and the inkpot and the shoulder bone”, or he said: “the shoulder bone and the inkpot”. Then he (saw) said: “Write: La yastawil-qa'iduna.” And behind the back of the Prophet (saw) sat Hazrat Amr bin Umm Maktum (ra), who was blind. He said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! What do you command me? I am a blind man. Then at that time this verse was revealed: “Those of the believers who sit still, excepting the disabled ones, and those who strive in the cause of Allah … are not equal.” (Qur’an 4:96)
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4991
Sa'id bin Ufair narrated to us. He said: Laith (bin Sa'd) told me that Uqail narrated to me. He narrated from Ibn Shihab. He said: Ubaidullah bin Abdullah narrated to me that (Hazrat Abdullah) bin Abbas (ra) told him that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Gabriel (as) taught me to recite (the Qur’an) according to one single mode. I kept asking him again and again and kept requesting more than one (mode) from him, and he kept teaching me more (modes), until he stopped on reaching seven modes of expression.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4992
Sa'id bin Ufair narrated to us. He said that Laith (bin Sa'd) told me that Uqail narrated to me. He narrated from Ibn Shihab. He said: Urwah bin Zubair narrated to me that Hazrat Miswar bin Makhramah (ra) and Abdur Rahman bin Abdul Qari both narrated to him that they heard Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (ra) say: I heard Hisham bin Hakim (ra) recite Surah Al-Furqan during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (saw). I listened carefully to his recitation and found that he was reciting it in many ways which the Messenger of Allah (saw) had not taught me. I was about to pounce on him while he was still in the Prayer (Salat), but I restrained myself patiently until he had ended with the salutation (Salam). I seized him by his cloak at his chest and said: Who taught you this Surah which I heard you recite? He said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) taught me this Surah. I said: You have said what is wrong. The Messenger of Allah (saw) taught me this Surah too, but not in the way you have recited it. I dragged him to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and said: I heard him recite Surah Al-Furqan in ways which you did not teach me. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Let him go.” (Then he (saw) said:) “Hisham, recite.” So he recited before him (saw) with the same reading in which I had heard him recite. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Thus it was revealed.” Then he (saw) said (to me): “Umar, recite.” So I recited the reading which he (saw) had taught me. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Thus it was revealed. Look! This Qur’an has been sent down according to seven modes. Recite whichever of them is easy.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4993
Ibrahim bin Musa narrated to us that Hisham bin Yusuf told us that Ibn Juraij told them. He said: And Yusuf bin Mahak also told me. He said: I was with Hazrat Aishah (ra), the Mother of the Believers, when an Iraqi came to her and asked: Which shroud is best? Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: Woe to you, and what harm will it do you (whatever it may be)? He said: Mother of the Believers! Show me your written copy of the Qur’an (Mushaf). Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: Why? He said: So that I may arrange the Qur’an according to it, because it is recited without arrangement. Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: And what harm does it do you which part of it you recite first? For the first Surah that was revealed of (the Surahs of) the Qur’an was a Surah of the Mufassal in which Paradise and the Fire are mentioned. When the people turned to Islam, the commandments of the lawful and the unlawful were revealed. If this had been revealed first: Do not drink wine, the people would certainly have said: We will never give up wine. And if this had come down first: Do not commit adultery, they would have said: We will never give up adultery. This verse was revealed to Muhammad (saw) in Mecca: “Aye, the Hour is their appointed time; and the Hour will be most calamitous and most bitter” (Qur’an 54:47), and at that time I was still a little girl who used to play. And Surah Al-Baqarah and Surah An-Nisa' were revealed when I was with him (saw). Yusuf bin Mahak used to say: Then Hazrat Aishah (ra) brought out the Mushaf for him and dictated to him the verses of every Surah.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4994
Adam (bin Abi Iyas) narrated to us that Shu'bah told us. He narrated from Abu Ishaq. He said: I heard Abdur Rahman bin Yazid. (He said:) I heard (Hazrat Abdullah) bin Mas'ud (ra). About Surah Bani Isra'il, Surah Al-Kahf, Surah Maryam, Surah Ta Ha and Surah Al-Anbiya' he used to say that they are among the first Surahs of the highest eloquence, and that they are among what I memorised long ago.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4995
Abul Walid narrated to us that Shu'bah told us that Abu Ishaq told us. He heard Hazrat Bara' (bin Azib) (ra) say: Before the Prophet (saw) came (to Medina), I had learnt “Sabbihisma rabbikal-a'la”.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4996
Abdan told us. He narrated from Abu Hamzah (Muhammad bin Maimun), Abu Hamzah from A'mash, A'mash from Shaqiq. He said: Hazrat Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (ra) used to say: I know well the (Surahs) resembling one another which the Prophet (saw) used to recite two by two in every Rak'ah. Having said this, Hazrat Abdullah (ra) got up and left, and Alqamah also went in with him. Then Alqamah came out. We asked him, and he said: They are the first twenty Surahs of the Mufassal according to the arrangement of Hazrat Ibn Mas'ud (ra). The last of them (in his view) are (Surahs) which begin with Ha Mim. Ha Mim, Ad-Dukhan and “Amma yatasa'alun” are also (among them).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4997
Yahya bin Qaza'ah narrated to us that Ibrahim bin Sa'd told us. He narrated from Zuhri, Zuhri from Ubaidullah bin Abdullah, Ubaidullah from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) was the most generous of all people in bestowing good, and he (saw) was most generous in the month of Ramadan, because Gabriel (as) would meet him (saw) every night in the month of Ramadan until the month had passed. The Messenger of Allah (saw) used to recite the Qur’an to him. Therefore, when Gabriel (as) met him (saw), he (saw) was more generous in bestowing good than the wind of spring.
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