Sunan ad-Darimi 3353
✧ The Virtue of Those Who Read the Quran
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ مِشْرَحِ بْنِ هَاعَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
«لَوْ جُعِلَ الْقُرْآنُ فِي إِهَابٍ ثُمَّ أُلْقِيَ فِي النَّارِ مَا احْتَرَقَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Mishraḥ b. Hāʿān
- ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ «If the Quran were placed in a hide and then thrown into the fire, it would not burn.»
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2140وَعَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «لَوْ جُعِلَ الْقُرْآنُ فِي إِهَابٍ ثُمَّ أُلْقِيَ فِي النَّار مَا احْتَرَقَ». رَوَاهُ الدَّارمِيّ
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AHعُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ بْنِ عَبْسٍ الْفَرَضِيُّصحابي مشهورسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. close to 120 AH, or: 128 AHمِشْرَحِ بْنِ هَاعَانَمقبولعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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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)
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