How much time passed between the revelation of the first Quran a...
بَابٌ كَمْ بَيْنَ نُزُولِ أَوَّلِ الْقُرْآنِ وَبَيْنَ آخِرِهِ
Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Kubra, Book of Virtues of the Qur'ān(view book)
Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Dāwud / Ibn Abū Hind > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās
"The Qur'an was revealed in Ramadan on the Night of Decree, and it was in the lowest heaven. Whenever Allah intended to bring about something, He would send it down. It was revealed over a period of twenty years, between its beginning and its end."
أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ وَهُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي هِنْدَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
«نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ فِي رَمَضَانَ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فَكَانَ فِي السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَكَانَ إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ شَيْئًا نَزَّلَ فَكَانَ بَيْنَ أَوَّلِهِ وَآخِرِهِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً»
Classification
Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd > Yazīd / Ibn Zurayʿ > Dāwud b. Abū Hind > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās
The Quran was revealed in its entirety on the Night of Decree to the lowest heaven, and whenever God willed to create something from it, He would create it.
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
نُزِّلَ الْقُرْآنُ جُمْلَةً فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَكَانَ إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا أَحْدَثَهُ
Classification
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm > al-Firyābī > Sufyān > al-Aʿmash > Ḥassān > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās
The Quran was revealed as a form of remembrance and was placed in the empyreal house in the lower heaven. Then Gabriel, ﷺ , descended to the Prophet Muhammad, may ﷺ , reciting it in a measured tone. Sufyan said, "There are five verses and the like."
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفِرْيَابِيُّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ حَسَّانَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
«فُصِلَ الْقُرْآنُ مِنَ الذِّكْرِ فَوُضِعَ فِي بَيْتِ الْعِزَّةِ فِي السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَجَعَلَ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَنْزِلُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يُرَتِّلُهُ تَرْتِيلًا» قَالَ سُفْيَانُ «خَمْسَ آيَاتٍ وَنَحْوهَا»