al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4130
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وَأَنْبَأَ ) أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ الْأَعْرَابِيِّ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الصَّبَّاحِ الزَّعْفَرَانِيُّ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ:
قُلْتُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: إِنِّي سَرِيعُ الْقِرَاءَةِ، إِنِّي أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي ثَلَاثٍ. قَالَ: لَأَنْ أَقْرَأَ الْبَقَرَةَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ فَأَتَدَبَّرَهَا وَأُرَتِّلَهَا أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَقْرَأَهَا كَمَا تَقْرَأُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Zaʿfarānī
- Ismāʿīl Ibn ʿUlayyah
- Ayyūb
- Abū Ḥamzah
Machine translation, not reviewed
I said to Ibn ʿAbbās: "I am a fast reader; I recite the Qur'an in three days." He said: "For me to recite al-Baqarah in a night, reflecting upon it and reciting it slowly and distinctly, is more beloved to me than to recite it as you recite."
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Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةقلت
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. during the governorship of Yūsuf b. ʿUmar over Iraq, or 128 AHأَبِي حَمْزَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AHأَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العبادعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 259 AH, or 260 AH, in al-Thiqāt: 249 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الصَّبَّاحِ الزَّعْفَرَانِيُّثقةحدثنا
- d. 340 AH, or 341 AHأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ الْأَعْرَابِيِّأنبأ
- أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَأنبأ
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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