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Sahih al-Bukhari 5040

Whoever thinks that there is no harm in saying: Surat al-Baqarah or Surat so-and-so

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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ وَعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ

الآيَتَانِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ مَنْ قَرَأَ بِهِمَا فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ
  2. my father
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Ibrāhīm
  5. ʿAlqamah and ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd
  6. Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said, "If one recites the last two verses of Surat al-Baqarah at night, it is sufficient for him (for that night)."

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  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 1368الآيَتَانِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ مَنْ قَرَأَهُمَا فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 2125وَعَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْآيَتَانِ مِنْ آخَرِ سُورَة الْبَقَرَة من قَرَأَ بهما فِي لَيْلَة كفتاه»
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 4008الآيَتَانِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ مَنْ قَرَأَهُمَا فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 40 AH, or before it or after it, or: 41 AH, or: 42 AH
    أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّصحابي جليل
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj, before al-Jamājim, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: 73 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī: at al-Jamājim 83 AH
    وَعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
    حدثني
  4. 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 AH
    الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AH
    أَبِيثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخر
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 222 AH
    عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍثقة ربما وهم
    حدثنا
  7. 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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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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