What is the authenticity of the following narration regarding the Quran?
“Indeed this Quran is such that its one end is in the [control] of Allah and the other end is in your hands. Therefore firmly hold onto it, for certainly you will not go astray nor and will you be destroyed thereafter”
Answer:
The full narration is as follows:
Abu Shurayh Al Khuza’i (radiyallahu ‘anhu) says:
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) once came out to us and said, ‘Glad tidings, do you not testify that there is none worthy of worship but Allah and I am the Messenger of Allah’? The Sahabah replied, ‘Most definitely’. Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) then said, ‘Indeed this Quran is [a means of attaining something], one end is in Allah’s [control] and one end in your control, so hold fast onto the Quran, for [if you do so] you will never go astray nor will you be destroyed”
(Sahih Ibn Hibban, Al Ihsan, Hadith: 122, Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, Hadith: 30628, and Al Mu’jamul Kabir, Hadith: 491, volume: 22)
Imam Ibn Hibban has declared the Hadith authentic. ‘Allamah Mundhiri and Hafiz Haythami have declared the chain of narrators of Tabarani reliable.
(Targhib, vol. 1 pg. 79 and Majma’uz Zawaid, vol. 1 pg. 169)
And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.
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