Musnad Ahmad 19549

Translation

✧ The likeness of a believer who recites the Quran is that of a citron: its taste is good and its fragrance is good. The likeness of a believer who does not recite the Quran is that of a date: its taste is good but it has no fragrance. The likeness of a wicked person who recites the Quran is that of sweet basil: its taste is bitter but its fragrance is good. The likeness of a wicked person who does not recite the Quran is that of a colocynth: its taste is bitter and it has no fragrance.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3939Sahih Muslim 797bSunan an-Nasa'i 4575

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   أن
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Rawḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AH
   رَوْحٌثقة فاضل ، له تصانيف
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.