Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2276
حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ، قَالَ إِنَّ آخِرَ مَا نَزَلَتْ آيَةُ الرِّبَا وَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قُبِضَ وَلَمْ يُفَسِّرْهَا لَنَا فَدَعُوا الرِّبَا وَالرِّيبَةَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab said: ‘The last of what was revealed was the verse on usury, and the Messenger of Allah died without explaining it to us. So leave usury and what is doubtful.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The wording says ‘the last of what was revealed was the verse on usury’; it is rendered literally without specifying whether this means the final revelation overall or the final verse concerning usury.
قَالَ إِنَّ آخِرَ مَا نَزَلَتْ آيَةُ الرِّبَا وَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قُبِضَ وَلَمْ يُفَسِّرْهَا لَنَا فَدَعُوا الرِّبَا وَالرِّيبَةَ .
The phrase ‘the last of what was revealed was the verse of usury’ does not explicitly state whether it means the last revelation overall or the last verse concerning usury.
What is the intended scope of ‘the last of what was revealed’ here?