Al-Ayyashi – From AL-Asbagh Bin Nabata who said...

Al-Ayyashi – From AL-Asbagh Bin Nabata who said: ‘When Amir-ul-Momineen -asws proceeded to Al-Kufa, he -asws Prayed with them for forty morning reciting with them “Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High” [87:1] . The hypocrites said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj ! The son -asws of Abu Talib -asws is not being good in reciting the Quran, and it would be better if he -asws were to recite the Quran with us by other than this Chapter’.

قال: فبلغه ذلك، فقال: «ويل لهم، إني لأعرف ناسخه من منسوخه، و محكمه من متشابهه، و فصله من فصاله، و حروفه من معانيه . و الله ما من حرف نزل على محمد (صلى الله عليه و آله) إلا أني أعرف فيمن نزل، و في أي يوم، و في أي موضع. He (Al-Asbagh) said, ‘That reached him -asws , so he -asws said: ‘Woe be unto them! I -asws recognise its Abrogating from its Abrogated, and it’s Decisive from its Allegorical, and its Separated from its Joint, and its Letters from its Meanings . By Allah -azwj !

ويل لهم- و الله- أنا الذي أنزل الله في: وَ تَعِيَها أُذُنٌ واعِيَةٌ ، فإنما كنا عند رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) فيخبرنا بالوحي فأعيه أنا و من يعيه، فإذا خرجنا قالوا: ما ذا قال آنفا؟». Woe be unto them! But they are reciting “Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures [87:18]. The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa” [87:19] . By Allah -azwj !

These are in my -asws possession, and I -asws inherited these two from the Rasool Allah -saww , and the Rasool Allah -saww handed over to me -asws the Scriptures of Ibrahim -as and Musa -as . Woe be unto them! By Allah -azwj , I -asws (am the one) about whom Allah -azwj Revealed: “And that the retaining ear would retain it” [69:12] . But rather, we used to be in the presence of the Rasool Allah -saww , so he -saww would inform us by the Revelation, so I -asws would hear it and retain it.

So when we would go out, they would say: “What was it that he said just now?” [47:16] [1] Naasikh (Abrogating): – Those Verses which replaced Verses of the Holy Quran – and will be indicated through Ahadith in the tafseer.