Virtues of the Quran's Chapters and Verses

Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 45

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يَسِيرُ فِي بَعْضِ أَسْفَارِهِ وَعُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يَسِيرُ مَعَهُ لَيْلاً فَسَأَلَهُ عُمَرُ عَنْ شَىْءٍ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ثُمَّ سَأَلَهُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ ثُمَّ سَأَلَهُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ ثَكِلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ نَزَرْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ لاَ يُجِيبُكَ، قَالَ عُمَرُ فَحَرَّكْتُ بَعِيرِي حَتَّى كُنْتُ أَمَامَ النَّاسِ وَخَشِيتُ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ فِيَّ قُرْآنٌ فَمَا نَشِبْتُ أَنْ سَمِعْتُ صَارِخًا يَصْرُخُ ـ قَالَ ـ فَقُلْتُ لَقَدْ خَشِيتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ نَزَلَ فِيَّ قُرْآنٌ ـ قَالَ ـ فَجِئْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ ‏ "‏ لَقَدْ أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَىَّ اللَّيْلَةَ سُورَةٌ لَهِيَ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ ‏"‏‏.‏ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ (‏إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحًا مُبِينًا‏).

Translation

Ismāʿīl related to us: Mālik told me, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) was travelling on one of his journeys, and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was travelling with him at night. ʿUmar asked him about something, but the Messenger of Allah did not answer him. He asked him again, but he did not answer him. He asked him a third time, but he did not answer him. ʿUmar said, ‘May your mother be bereaved of you! You have pressed the Messenger of Allah three times, and each time he does not answer you.’ ʿUmar said: I urged my camel on until I was ahead of the people, and I feared that Qur’an would be revealed about me. Before long, I heard a caller calling out. I said, ‘I feared that Qur’an had been revealed about me.’ I came to the Messenger of Allah, greeted him, and he said, ‘A sūrah was revealed to me tonight that is dearer to me than everything on which the sun has risen.’ Then he recited: ‘Indeed, We have granted you a clear victory.’

Translation notes
  • حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ،

    The Arabic transmission chain includes Ismāʿīl, Mālik and Zayd ibn Aslam before his father; the English witness begins at Aslam.

    Is the witness an abridged rendering of this occurrence’s chain?