English translation
2952. Jundab bin 'Abdullāh narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Whoever says (something) about the Qur'an according to his opinion and he is correct, yet he has committed a mistake.” (Da'if) This Hadīth is Gharīb. Some of the people of Hadīth have criticized Suhail bin Abī Hazm. [Abū 'Eisā said:] This is how it has been reported from some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and others. They were very stern about this – about explaining the Qur'an without knowledge. As for what has been related from Mujāhid, Qatādah and others, among the people of knowledge, that they would interpret the Qur'an, then it should not be thought about them that they would say something about the Qur'an, or interpret it without knowledge, or according to their own intellect. Rather that which proves what we have said has been reported from them, that they would say something from themselves without knowledge. Ḥusain bin Mahdī Al-Baṣrī narrated to us (he said: "Abdur-Razzāq narrated to us, from Ma'mar, from Qatādah who said: 'There is no Āyah in the Qur'an except that I have heard something about it.'") Ibn Abī 'Umar narrated to us (he said): "Sufyān bin 'Uyainah narrated to us, from Al-A'mash who said: 'Mujāhid said: If you recited the recitation of Ibn Mas'ūd, you would not need to ask Ibn 'Abbās about much of what you ask him regarding the Qur'an.'"