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tabarani:17510ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Abū Yaḥyá > ʿAlī b. Thābit al-Dahhān > Asbāṭ b. Naṣr > al-Suddī > ʿAbd Khayr > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] "The Quran was revealed through seven gates, upon seven letters, all of them are a sound of "sh" (pronounced as "shaf" and "kaf")."  

الطبراني:١٧٥١٠حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ أَبُو يَحْيَى ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الدَّهَّانُ عَنْ أَسْبَاطِ بْنِ نَصْرٍ عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ خَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ

«أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ مِنْ سَبْعَةِ أَبْوَابٍ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ كُلُّهَا شَافٍ كَافٍ»  


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ahmad:23326ʿAffān > Ḥammād > ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah > Zir > Ḥudhayfah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "The Quran was revealed in seven dialects/variations."  

أحمد:٢٣٣٢٦حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ زِرٍّ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ  

ahmad:21091ʿAffān > Ḥammād > Ḥumayd > Anas > ʿUbādah > Ubay b. Kaʿb

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The Quran was revealed with seven dialects."  

أحمد:٢١٠٩١حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا حُمَيْدٌ عَنْ أَنَسٍ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ أَنَّ أُبَيَّ بْنَ كَعْبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ  

ahmad:20179Bahz > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The Qur'an was revealed with seven different readings."  

أحمد:٢٠١٧٩حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ  

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ أَنْزَلَ الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى أَحْرُفٍ مَعْلُومَةٍ

ibnhibban:742Abū Khalīfah > Abū al-Walīd > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Ḥumayd > Anas > ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit > Ubay b. Kaʿb

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The Quran was revealed with seven dialects."  

ابن حبّان:٧٤٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ قَالَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ»  

nasai-kubra:7930ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Ibn Dāwud > Sufyān > al-Walīd b. Qays > al-Qāsim b. Ḥassān > Fulfulah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Juʿfī > ʿAbdullāh / Ibn Masʿūd

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

الكبرى للنسائي:٧٩٣٠أَخْبَرَنَا 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»