Musnad Ahmad 11053
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَسَمِعْتُهُ أَنَا مِنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَالِدٍ الْأَحْمَرُ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ الْمَشْرِقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
أَيَعْجِزُ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يَقْرَأَ ثُلُثَ الْقُرْآنِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: فَشَقَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ، فَقَالُوا: مَنْ يُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: " يَقْرَأُ: قُلْ هُوَ اللهُ أَحَدٌ فَهِيَ ثُلُثُ الْقُرْآنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman and Samiʿtuh
- Min ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Abū Shaybah
- Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar
- al-Aʿmash
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Mashriqī
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ Would any of you be unable to recite a third of the Quran in a night? That was difficult for his companions, so they said: 'Who can do that?' He said: 'Recite: "Say: He is God, the One" - it is a third of the Quran.'
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
المحفوظ الثابث الصحيح في هذا الحديث أنها لتعدل ثلث القرآن
machine translationWhat is preserved, established and sound in this hadith is that it is equal to a third of the Qur'an.
in مسند أحمد, p. 11152
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)الضَّحَّاكِ الْمِشْرَقِيِّصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 189 AH, or 190 AHأَبُو خَالِدٍ الْأَحْمَرُصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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