368 — Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Ali informed us: Hamzah ibn al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Aziz narrated to us: Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Mansur narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn al-Muhajir ibn Mismar narrated to me: Umar ibn Hafs, the client of al-Huraqah, narrated from Abu Hurayrah. Through another chain:
369 — Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Bakran informed us: al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman informed us: Yaqub ibn Sufyan narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn al-Muhajir ibn Mismar narrated to me, from Umar ibn Hafs ibn Dhakwan, the client of al-Huraqah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Allah recited Ta-Ha and Ya-Sin one thousand years before He created Adam.”
In the narration of Abd al-Rahman ibn Mansur, it is: “or two thousand years.” He said: “When the angels heard the Quran, they said, ‘Blessed is the nation upon which this will be sent down ⦗252⦘.’”
In the narration of Abd al-Rahman: “Blessed is the nation upon which this will be sent down; blessed are the hearts that carry this; and blessed is the tongue—or the person—that speaks this.” The wording of Abd al-Rahman is: “Blessed are the tongues that speak this, and blessed are the hearts that carry this.”