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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:430-132b – Ibn Masʿūd
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السيوطي:٤٣٠-١٣٢b – عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

"إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ أُنزلَ عَلَى نَبِيِّكُمْ مِنْ سَبْعَة أَبْوابٍ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ، وَإِنَّ الكتَابَ قَبْلَكُمْ كَانَ يَنْزلُ منْ بَابٍ وَاحِدٍ عَلَى حَرْفٍ وَاحِدٍ".

ابن أبى داود، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه

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[Machine] "The books descended from one gate, and the Quran descended from seven gates, upon seven characters/letters."

الكبرى للنسائي:٧٩٣٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ دَاوُدَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ فُلْفُلَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْجُعْفِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ

«نَزَلَتِ الْكُتُبُ مِنْ بَابٍ وَاحِدٍ وَنَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ مِنْ سَبْعَةِ أَبْوَابٍ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ»