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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:420-76b – Ibn ʿAbbās > Awwal
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٤٢٠-٧٦b –

"عَنْ ابْن عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: أَوَّلُ مَا خَلَقَ الله منْ شَىْءٍ الْقَلَمُ، ثُمَّ خَلَقَ النُّونَ، فَكَبَس (*) الأرضَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ النُّونِ".

[ش] ابن أبى شيبة

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suyuti:420-63b – Ibn ʿAbbās
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٤٢٠-٦٣b –

"عَن ابْن عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: أَوَّلُ مَا خَلَقَ الله الْقَلَمُ، ثُمَّ خُلِقَتْ لَهُ النُّونُ، وَهِىَ الدَّوَاةُ".

[ش] ابن أبى شيبة