3 - Chapter: Mentioning the Major Sins

4009 - Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us, he said: Baqiyyah informed us, he said: Bahir ibn Sa'd narrated to me, from Khalid ibn Ma'dan, that Abu Ruhm al-Sama'i narrated to them that Abu Ayyub al-Ansari narrated to him that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever comes..."

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...with Mujalid regarding it. Then indeed, Mujalid ibn 'Awf's hearing from Zayd ibn Thabit is established according to what Ibn Abi Hatim said in "Al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil" 8/360.

I say: As for the irregularity of its wording, it appears — and Allah knows best — that it came from the direction of 'Amr ibn 'Ali, the compiler's shaykh. For in his narration here, it occurs that the verse of Al-Furqan was revealed after the verse of Al-Nisa'. Abu Dawud (4272) narrated it from Muslim ibn Ibrahim with this chain, and its wording in his version follows the standard path, meaning: that the verse of Al-Nisa' was revealed after the verse of Al-Furqan by six months.

Khalid ibn 'Abdullah al-Wasiti was followed in his chain by Ibn Abi al-Zinad — namely 'Abd al-Rahman — who narrated it, as Abu 'Ubayd recorded in "Al-Nasikh wa al-Mansukh" (489) and al-Tabarani in "Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir" (4905), from his father, that 'Awf ibn Mujalid al-Hadrami informed him — and he was a truthful man — he said: He informed me while we were with Kharijah ibn Zayd ibn Thabit, he said: I said to Zayd ibn Thabit... and he mentioned it.

Supporting the omission of Kharijah ibn Zayd from the chain is what Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah narrated, as recorded by 'Abd al-Razzaq in his "Tafsir" 1/168, Sa'id ibn Mansur in his "Sunan" (667, Tafsir section), al-Tabari in his "Tafsir" 5/220 and 220-221, and Ibn al-Jawzi in "Nawasikh al-Qur'an" p. 292 — from Abu al-Zinad, he said: I heard a man narrating to Kharijah ibn Zayd, saying: I heard your father in this place at Mina saying... and he mentioned it. And this man was Mujalid ibn 'Awf.

I say: It is not unlikely that Abu al-Zinad had two chains for this report, narrating it once from Mujalid ibn 'Awf, from Zayd ibn Thabit, and another time — as in the previous narration — from Kharijah ibn Zayd, from his father.

Al-Sindi said: His saying: "We were apprehensive of it" means we feared the severity within it. "Then the verse in Al-Furqan was revealed" to lighten things for us. This indicates the opposite of what Ibn 'Abbas mentioned. Reconciliation is possible by saying that one of the two verses reached some people first, then the second reached them, and they assumed that the one which reached them second was revealed second. However, the narrations of this hadith are in themselves contradictory, so reliance is placed on the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas. And Allah knows best.