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(1). 3086. Ibn ‘Abbās said: “I said to Uthmān bin ‘Affān: ‘What was your reasoning with Al-Anfāl – while it is from the Muthānī,[1] and Barā’ah[2] while it is from the Mī’n, then you put them together, without writing the line Bismillāh Ar-Raḥmānir-Raḥīm between them, and you placed them with the seven long (Sūrah) – why did you do that?’ So Uthmān said: ‘A long time might pass upon the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ without anything being revealed to him, and then sometimes a Sūrah with numerous (Āyāt) might be revealed. So when something was revealed, he would call for someone who could write, and say: “Put these Āyāt in the Sūrah which mentions this and that in it.” When an Āyah was revealed, he would
say: "Put this Āyah in the Sūrah which mentions this and that in it." Now Al-Anfāl was among the first of those revealed in Al-Madīnah, and Barā'ah among the last of those revealed of the Qur'an, and its narrations (those of Barā'ah) resembled its narrations (those of Al-Anfāl), so we thought that it was part of it. Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ died, and it was not made clear to us whether it was part of it. So it is for this reason that we put them together without writing the line Bismillāh Ar-Raḥmānir-Raḥīm between them, and we put that with the seven long (Sūrahs)."(Ḥasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. We do not know of it except as a narration of 'Awf from Yazīd Al-Fārīsī, from Ibn 'Abbās. Yazīd Al-Fārīsī is one of the Tābi'īn among the inhabitants of Al-Baṣrah. Yazīd bin Abān Ar-Raqāshī is one of the Tābi'īn among the inhabitants of Al-Baṣrah, (but) he is less (in rank) than Yazīd Al-Fārīsī. Yazīd Ar-Raqāshī only reported from Anas bin Mālik.
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Footnotes
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[1] Sūrah with less than one-hundred Āyāt.
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[2] Sūrah with about one-hundred Āyāt.
Commentary
The Muslims have been advised, in Sūrat Al-Anfāl, to make apparent and secret strategic planning for Jihād; and as for Sūrat Barā'ah, it gives an ultimatum and the declaration of war. As the contents and subject of the two Sūrah are connected profoundly, and the both the Sūrah have a deep relation in sense of aim and goal, one is directed fully towards the Muslims and the other is mainly directed to the polytheists, hypocrites and the people of the Book. Therefore Bismillāh Ar-Raḥmānir-Raḥīm has not been mentioned
between them, so that it does not remain separate from the former, but it would remain distinguished and outstanding too.
