130 Preface سَلامٌ عَلىٰ إِل ياسينَAli Quli Qarai‘Peace be to Ilyās!’1 In accordance with an alternate reading (salāmun ʿalā Āl-i Yā Sīn), narrated from Nāfiʿ, Ibn ʿĀmir, Yaʿqūb, Ruways, al-Aʿraj, Shaybah, Zayd ibn ʿAlī and others (see Muʿjam al-Qirāʾāt al-Qurʾāniyyah, vol. 5, p. 246), the translation will be ‘Peace be upon the progeny of Yā Sīn’ (i.e. the Prophet, who is referred to as Yā Sīn in 36:1). Traditions narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās (al-Durr al-Manthūr, vol. 5, p. 286), Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (Maʿānī al-Akhbār, p. 122) and Imam ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā (ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā, vol. 1, p.237) also support this reading.