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Ibn Hibban 4429

I met Ubayy ibn Ka'b and said to him, "Ibn Mas'ud used to erase the two protective surahs (Al-Mu'awwidhatayn) from the Qur'ans and say they are not part of the Qur'an, so do not include in it what is not part of it." Ubayy replied, "It was said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , so he told us, and we say, 'How many verses do you consider in Surah Al-Ahzab?' I said, 'Seventy-three.' Ubayy then said, 'By Him in whose name oaths are taken, it was equivalent to Surah Al-Baqarah, and we used to read in it the verse of stoning: "The older man and the older woman, stone them absolutely as a deterrent punishment from Allah. And Allah is Mighty, Wise." (Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Mukram Bi-al-Baṣrah > Dāwud b. Rushayd > Abū Ḥafṣ al-Abbār > Manṣūr > ʿĀṣim b. Abū al-Najūd > Zir b. Ḥubaysh)