Musnad Ahmad 19614

Translation

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

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Sahih Muslim 797b

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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
   حدثه
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hammām

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
   هَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Bahz

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
   وَبَهْزٌثقة ثبت
   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

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