Ahmad 2246

Its isnad is sahih. Tabari related it in the tafsir 16:39 from Yaqub from Hushaym. Abu Dawud related the first half of it, concerning the recitation in Dhuhr and Asr, in 1:297 from Ziyad bin Ayub from Hushaym. Hakim related the other half of it, concerning the reading of the word "atiyya", in 2:244 through Khalid bin Abdullah Wasiti from Husayn, and he graded it sahih according to the standard of Bukhari, and Dhahabi agreed with him. This latter half is mentioned in Majma al-Zawaid 7:115, where it is said, Ahmad related it and its narrators are the narrators of the sahih. Ibn Kathir quoted the complete hadith in the tafsir 5:348-349 from Tabari, then said, Imam Ahmad related it from Surayj bin Numan, and Abu Dawud from Ziyad bin Ayub, both of them from Hushaym, with the same wording. It will come at length as number 2332, from Uthman from Jareer from Husayn. See also 2238.Regarding his saying "atiyya" or "asiyya", both are with the ayn vowelled with damma and the ta or sin vowelled with kasra. Both instances were written in H as "atiyya" with a ta, and likewise they were written in K, where the first was marked with damma on the ayn and kasra on the second letter, but then the second was corrected in its margin to "asiyya" with a sin instead of a ta, which is the correct reading. For Ibn Abbas only differed over whether it was a ta or a sin, not over whether the ayn carried damma or kasra. It is established in Mustadrak that the text states both are with damma, but there it was written "jathiyya" instead of "asiyya", which is a clear printing error. Both forms of the word are well known, with a ta and with a sin. The fourteen reciters all read it as "atiyya" with a ta and no other form, but Hamza, Kisai, Amash, and Hafs read the ayn with kasra, while the rest read it with damma. As for the reading "asiyya" with damma on the ayn and kasra on the sin, Dani attributed it to Ibn Abbas, and Zamakhshari attributed it to Ubayy and Mujahid.It is said, "the branch became ata and asa", meaning it dried out. In Lisan 19:253 it says, "the old man became atiyya", meaning he aged, grew old, and passed on. It also says, everything that reaches its end has "ata, yatu, utuwwan and atiyya", and "asa, yasu, usuwwan and asiyya". Something similar appears there also at 19:283, and it adds that the author saw in the margin of the original copy of Tahdhib by Azhari, from which he had been quoting, a hadith with a continuous chain of transmission going back to Ibn Abbas, mentioning the hadith found here, and then he said, I do not know whether this is part of the original text of the book, or whether some distinguished scholar wrote it in the margin.