Sahih al-Bukhari 5020

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The example of him (a believer) who recites the Qur'an is like that of a citron which tastes good and smells good. And he (a believer) who does not recite the Qur'an is like a date which is good in taste but has no smell. And the example of a dissolute wicked person who recites the Qur'an is like the Raihana (sweet basil) which smells good but tastes bitter. And the example of a dissolute wicked person who does not recite the Qur'an is like the colocynth which tastes bitter and has no smell.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 797bMusnad Ahmad 19614Sahih Ibn Hibban 770al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6716al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6717

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
   عن
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسٌصحابي مشهور
   حدثنا
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
   Hudbah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, al-Nasāʾī alone considered him soft (layyin)d. 235 AH, or: 236 AH, or: 237 AH, or: 238 AH, also said: 239 AH
   هُدْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ أَبُو خَالِدٍثقة عابد ، تفرد النسائي بتليينه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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