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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī

زِرٌّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

tabarani:12603 – Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī > Yaʿqūb b. Abū ʿAbbād al-Makkī > Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān > ʿĀṣim > Zir

[Machine] In his statement {§It was as close as two bows or even closer}, the word "al-qaab" means restriction and "al-qawsayn" refers to the two arms.  

الطبراني:١٢٦٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبَّادٍ الْمَكِّيِّ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ زِرٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

فِي قَوْلِهِ {§فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى} قَالَ الْقَابُ الْقَيْدُ وَالْقَوْسَيْنِ الذِّرَاعَيْنِ