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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.

الم ذٰلِكَ الْكِتٰابُ لاٰ رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدىً لِلْمُتَّقِينَ

(Qur’an 2:1–2)

Alif Lam Mim. This Book, there is no doubt in it, is a guide to those who guard (against evil). [M. H. Shakir]

99-/310 _1- أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي،عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ،عَنْ يُونُسَ،عَنْ سَعْدَانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ،عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ،عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)،قَالَ: «الْكِتَابُ:عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)لاَ شَكَّ فِيهِ». هُدىً لِلْمُتَّقِينَ قَالَ:«بَيَانٌ لِشِيعَتِنَا».

99-/310 _1- Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim said: My father narrated to me, from Yahya ibn Abi ‘Imran, from Yunus, from Sa‘dan ibn Muslim, from Abu Basir, from Abu ‘Abdillah (peace be upon him). He said: “The Book is ‘Ali (peace be upon him); there is no doubt in him.” As for “a guidance for the Godwary,” he said: “It is a clarification for our Shia.”

قوله تعالى: اَلَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلاٰةَ وَ مِمّٰا رَزَقْنٰاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ

(Qur’an 2:3)

Those who believe in the unseen and keep up prayer and spend out of what We have given them. [M. H. Shakir]

99-/311 _2-علي بن إبراهيم،قال:مما علمناهم،ينبئون،و ممّا علمناهم من القرآن يتلون.و قال: الم هو حرف من حروف اسم اللّه الأعظم،المقطع في القرآن،الذي خوطب به النبيّ(عليه الصلاة و السلام)و الإمام،فإذا دعا به أجيب.

99-/311 _2- ‘Ali ibn Ibrahim said: “Of what We have taught them, they inform; and of what We have taught them of the Qur’an, they recite.” And he said: “Alif Lam Mim is a letter from the letters of the Greatest Name of Allah, segmented in the Qur’an, with which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Imam were addressed; so when one supplicates by it, he is answered.”

99-/312 _3- الْعَيَّاشِيُّ:عَنْ سَعْدَانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ،عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ،عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) فِي قَوْلِهِ: الم* ذٰلِكَ الْكِتٰابُ لاٰ رَيْبَ فِيهِ ،قَالَ:«كِتَابُ عَلِيٍّ لاَ رَيْبَ فِيهِ». هُدىً لِلْمُتَّقِينَ قَالَ:«الْمُتَّقُونَ:شِيعَتُنَا».

99-/312 _3- Al-‘Ayyashi: from Sa‘dan ibn Muslim, from some of his companions, from Abu ‘Abdillah (peace be upon him), regarding His saying: “Alif Lam Mim. That is the Book; there is no doubt in it,” he said: “The Book of ‘Ali—there is no doubt in it.” As for “a guidance for the Godwary,” he said: “The Godwary are our Shia.”

_1) -تفسير القمّيّ 1:30. _1)

-Tafsir al-Qummi 1:30.

_2) -تفسير القمّيّ 1:30. _2)

-Tafsir al-Qummi 1:30.

_3) -تفسير العيّاشيّ 1:1/25. _3)

-Tafsir al-‘Ayyashi 1:1/25.

[1] اختلف العلماء في الحروف المعجمة،المفتتحة بها السّور،فذهب بعضهم إلى أنّها من المتشابهات الّتي استأثر اللّه تعالى بعلمها،و لا يعلم تأويلها إلاّ هو، و هذا هو المرويّ عن أئمّتنا(عليهم السّلام). و روت العامّة عن أمير المؤمنين(عليه السّلام)أنّه قال: «إنّ لكلّ كتاب صفوة،و صفوة هذا الكتاب حروف التّهجّي». و عن الشعبي،قال:لله في كل كتاب سر،و سره في القرآن سائر حروف الهجاء المذكورة في أوائل السور. و فسرها آخرون على وجوه.أنظر تفسير مجمع البيان 1:112.

[1] The scholars have differed regarding the isolated letters with which the surahs are opened. Some maintain that they are among the ambiguous matters whose knowledge Allah, Exalted is He, has reserved to Himself, and none knows their interpretation but He; and this is what is transmitted from our Imams (peace be upon them). The generality have reported from the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) that he said: “Every book has an elite, and the elite of this Book are the letters of spelling.” And from al-Sha‘bi: Allah has, in every book, a secret, and His secret in the Qur’an is the various letters of the alphabet mentioned at the beginnings of the surahs. Others have interpreted them in various ways.

See:

تفسير مجمع البيان 1:112.

Tafsir Majma‘ al-Bayan 1:112.