Ibn Asakir - Tarikh Dimashq - Letter Alif

558 - Ubayy ibn Ka'b ibn Qays ibn Ubayd ...

Part: (7) - Page number: (337)

- Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muslim and Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Sulami reported to us, saying: Abu Abdallah al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Sulami reported to us, saying: Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Musa ibn al-Samsar reported to us, saying: Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Marwan al-Qurashi narrated to us, saying: Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Mu’alla ibn Yazid narrated to us, saying: Hisham ibn Khalid narrated to us, saying: Al-Walid, meaning Ibn Muslim, narrated to us from Abdallah ibn al-Ala’ ibn Zabr from Atiyyah ibn Qays from Abu Idris al-Khawlani that Abu al-Darda’ rode to Madinah with a group from the people of Damascus, and one day they recited this verse before Umar ibn al-Khattab: "When those who disbelieved had put in their hearts zealotry, the zealotry of ignorance, and if you had shown zealotry as they had shown zealotry, the Sacred Mosque would have been corrupted." Umar ibn al-Khattab asked, “Who taught you this recitation?” They replied, “Ubayy ibn Ka'b.” Umar then said to a man from Madinah, “Call Ubayy ibn Ka'b for me,” and he said to one of the men from Damascus, “Go with him.” They went and found Ubayy ibn Ka'b at his home applying tar to a camel with his own hand. They greeted him, and the man from Madinah said, “Answer the call of the Commander of the Faithful, Umar.” Ubayy ibn Ka'b asked, “Why did the Commander of the Faithful summon me?” The man from Madinah informed him of what had happened, and Ubayy said to the man from Damascus, “By Allah, you people of this group will not stop until the worst of you comes forward!” Then he came to Umar ibn al-Khattab, sleeves rolled up, with tar on his hands. When he reached Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umar said to them, “Recite,” and they recited: "And if you had shown zealotry as they had shown zealotry, the Sacred Mosque would have been corrupted." Ubayy said, “Yes, by Allah, O Umar, I taught them this recitation.” Umar ibn al-Khattab then said to Zayd ibn Thabit, “Recite, O Zayd,” and Zayd recited the standard recitation. Umar said, “O Allah, I recognize only this.” Ubayy then said, “By Allah, O Umar, you know that I would attend when they were absent, I would be brought near while they were kept away, and certain things were done to me that were not done to them. By Allah, if you wish, I will remain in my house and never speak of anything or teach anyone until I die.” Umar ibn al-Khattab replied, “O Allah, forgive us. We know that Allah has given you knowledge; so teach the people what you know.”

Ibn Asakir - Tarikh Dimashq - Letter Alif

558 - Ubayy ibn Ka'b ibn Qays ibn Ubayd ...

Part: (7) - Page numbers: (338 / 339)

- Abu al-Qasim al-Shahami reported to us, saying: Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi reported to us, saying: Abu Nasr ibn Qatada reported to us, saying: Abu Mansur al-Nadravi narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn Najda narrated to us, saying: Sa'id ibn Mansur narrated to us, saying: Sufyan from Amr and from Bajalah or someone else said: Umar ibn al-Khattab passed by a boy who was reading in the Mushaf: “The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and his wives are their mothers” (Al-Ahzab: 6) “and he is a father to them.” He said, “O boy, erase it.” The boy said, “This is the Mushaf of Ubayy.” So he went to him and asked him, and he said: “The Quran kept me busy, while trade in the markets kept you busy.”

Ibn Asakir - *Tarikh Dimashq* - The Letter "Mim"

5894 - Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Dawud bin Sayyar ...

Volume: (51) - Page Number: (36)

Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali bin al-Muslim informed us, saying: al-Hasan bin Ahmad al-Salami informed us, saying: Abu al-Hasan Ibn al-Samsar informed us, saying: Abu ‘Abdullah bin Marwan narrated to us, saying: Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abi ‘Atab al-Baghdadi came to us and narrated, saying: Yahya bin Ibrahim bin Abi ‘Ubaydah bin Ma‘n al-Mas‘udi narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to me from his father, from his grandfather, from al-A‘mash, from Abu Ishaq, from ‘Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid, who said: “‘Abdullah bin Mas‘ud used to erase the two protecting surahs from his Mushafs, saying: ‘They are not from the Book of Allah.’”