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Hadith 537
Hadith #
537
Book
Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara
Volume
1
Section
6
Part
The Book of the Glorious Quran
Chapter
The Four-fold Division of the Qur’an; It being Sent down upon a Single Harf; A Count of the Number of its Verses
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad Āṣif al-Muḥsinī
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[3/1564] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad from Ali b. al-Hakam from Hisham b. Salim from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said
The Qur’an that Jibril عليه السلام came with to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله was seventeen thousand verses
[1564/3] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن علي بن الحكم، عن هشام بن سالم، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال
إن القرآن الذي جاء به جبرئيل عليه السلام إلى محمد صلى الله عليه وآله سبعة عشر ألف آية
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  • Al-Kāfi #2139 “The Quran that Jibril (as) brought to Muhammad (sw) had seventeen thousand verses.”
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