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English translation
2944. Ubayy bin Ka'b said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ met Jibra'il and said: 'O Jibra'il! I have been sent to an illiterate nation among whom are the elderly woman, the old man, the boy and the girl, and the man who cannot read a book at all.' He said: 'O Muḥammad! Indeed the Qur'an was revealed in seven modes.'"(Hasan)
There is something on this topic from 'Umar, Ḥudhaifah bin Al-Yamān, Abū Hurairah, Umm Ayyūb – and she was the wife of Abū Ayyūb Al-Anṣārī – Samurah, Ibn 'Abbās, Abū Juḥaim bin Al-Ḥārith bin Aṣ-Ṣimmah, ['Amr bin Al-'Āṣ and Abū Bakrah].
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ. It has been reported from Ubayy bin Ka'b through other routes.
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Commentary
This Hadīth proves that the real purpose and objective of seven types of pronunciations, is that the Prophet ﷺ was sent to an illiterate nation that included all types of people. If the recitation of the Qur'an was defined just with one pronunciation, then the Ummah would suffer from hardship.
