1. We were told by my father, may Allah grant him mercy, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Abi Abdillah, from Muhammed bin Khalid al-Ash’ari, from Ibrahim bin Muhammed bin al-Ash’ari, from Tha’laba bin Maimoun, from Abu Khalid al-Qammat, from Hamran bin A’yan, that he said: I asked Abu Ja’far, peace be upon him, about the apparent of the Qur’an and its inside. He said: Its apparent applies to those for whose sake the (scattered verses of the) Qur’an was revealed, and its inside applies to those who act by the same deeds of theirs; it continues in them what was revealed for the sake of those (of the apparent sense).