certain people through this Quran and thereby lowers others.” It is authentic; Muslim transmitted it from Zuhayr ibn Harb. (1)
Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ‘Abd al-Samad al-Turabi, known as Ibn Abi al-Haytham, informed us; al-Hakim Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Haddadi informed us in the year 384 AH; Abu Yazid Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Khalid informed us; Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Hanzali informed us; Jarir—that is, Ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid—narrated from Qabus ibn Abi Dhabyan, from his father, from Ibn ‘Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Indeed, the person who has nothing of the Quran within him is like a ruined house.” (2) Abu ‘Isa said: “This is an authentic hadith.”
‘Abd al-Wahid al-Mulayhi informed us; Abu Mansur al-Sam‘ani informed us; Abu Ja‘far al-Zayyati informed us; Humayd ibn Zanjawayh narrated to us; Abu Ayyub al-Dimashqi informed us; Sa‘dan ibn Yahya narrated to us; ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Humayd narrated from Abu al-Hakam al-Malih al-Hudhali, from Wathilah ibn al-Asqa‘, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “I was given the seven long surahs in place of the Torah; I was given the hundred-verse surahs in place of the Gospel; I was given the Mathani, the oft-repeated surahs, in place of the Psalms; and I was given the Opening of the Book and the closing verses of al-Baqarah from beneath the Throne—no prophet before me was given them. And my Lord granted me the Mufassal, the shorter divided surahs, as an additional gift.” (3) It is singular.