3981 — Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, al-Mughīrah ibn Salamah narrated to us, Ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from al-Ajlaḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā narrated to me, from his father, from Ubayy, that the Prophet ﷺ recited: "Say: 'In the bounty of Allah and His mercy — in that let them rejoice; it is better than what they accumulate'" (Yūnus 10:58).

Abū Dāwūd said: with the tāʾ (i.e., the second-person plural imperative form).

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And His saying {faltafriḥū} — with the tāʾ with two dots above, as an imperative addressed to those being spoken to; this is the reading of Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī, one of the ten reciters, in the transmission of Ruways al-Luʾluʾī. The rest read {falyafraḥū} — with the yāʾ with two dots below, as an imperative for those who are absent (third person). Ubayy ibn Kaʿb also read the remainder of the verse: {huwa khayrun mimmā tajmaʿūn} — with the tāʾ with two dots above, in the second person; and with this reading ʿĀmir al-Dimashqī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Madanī, and Ruways al-Luʾluʾī read. The rest read {yajmaʿūn} — with the yāʾ with two dots below, in the third person. Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī favored the reading with the yāʾ with two dots below in both words. See Jāmiʿ al-Bayān 11/126, Ḥujjat al-Qirāʾāt p. 424, and al-Nashr fī al-Qirāʾāt al-ʿAshr 2/285.

(1) A ḥasan ḥadīth. Al-Ajlaḥ — who is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥujayyah al-Kindī — is weak but is considered (for corroboration), and he was followed (by other narrators) in the preceding ḥadīth.

It was also transmitted by al-Ṭayālisī (545), Abū ʿUbayd in Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān p. 358, Aḥmad (21136), al-Bukhārī in Khalq Afʿāl al-ʿIbād (536), (537), and (538), al-Ṭabarī in his Tafsīr 11/126, al-Shāshī in his Musnad (1437), al-Ḥākim 2/240–241, Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah 1/251 and in Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah (750), al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī (1227), al-Mizzī in his biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, and Ibn al-Jazarī in al-Nashr fī al-Qirāʾāt al-ʿAshr 2/285, via the chain of al-Ajlaḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kindī, from him. In some printed editions, the verse was corrupted in their transmission to {falyafraḥū} with the yāʾ, whereas in the reading of Ubayy ibn Kaʿb it is with the tāʾ, as the author stated after the ḥadīth. The chain of al-Ṭayālisī in the printed edition came as: from al-Ajlaḥ, from Zarr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā, from his father, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb — and this is an error.

See also what precedes it.

(2) This statement of Abū Dāwūd we have confirmed from (A). He indicated that it is in the transmission of Ibn al-ʿAbd.