al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4193
✧ The Virtue of the Reciters
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُهَاجِرِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ غَنْمٍ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ ؓ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
« مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَمِلَ بِمَا فِيهِ، وَمَاتَ فِي الْجَمَاعَةِ، بُعِثَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مَعَ السَّفَرَةِ وَالْبَرَرَةِ، وَمَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ وَهُوَ يَنْفَلِتُ مِنْهُ آتَاهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى أَجْرَهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ، وَمَنْ كَانَ حَرِيصًا عَلَيْهِ وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُهُ وَلَا يَدَعُهُ بَعَثَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى مَعَ أَشْرَافِ أَهْلِهِ، وَفُضِّلُوا عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ كَمَا فُضِّلَتِ النُّسُورُ عَلَى سَائِرِ الطُّيُورِ، وَكَمَا فُضِّلَتْ عَيْنٌ فِي مَرْجَةٍ عَلَى مَا حَوْلَهَا، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ: أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ رِعَايَةُ الْأَنْعَامِ عَنْ تِلَاوَةِ كِتَابِي ؟ فَيَقُومُونَ فَيَلْبَسُ أَحَدُهُمْ تَاجَ الْكَرَامَةِ، وَيُعْطَى الْيُمْنَ بِيَمِينِهِ وَالْخُلْدَ بِيَسَارِهِ، ثُمَّ يُكْسَى أَبَوَاهُ إِنْ كَانَا مُسْلِمَيْنِ حُلَّةً، خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا، فَيَقُولَانِ: أَنَّى لَنَا هَذَا، وَمَا بَلَغَتْ أَعْمَالُنَا ؟ فَيُقَالُ: إِنَّ وَلَدَكُمَا كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Sūwayd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Jābir
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū al-Muhājir
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ghanm
- Muʿādh b. Jabal
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “Whoever recites the Qur'an and acts according to what is in it and dies in the community will be raised on the Day of Resurrection with the noble and righteous scribes. Whoever recites the Qur'an while it slips away from him, Allah the Exalted will give him his reward twice. Whoever is eager for it but cannot do it and does not abandon it, Allah the Exalted will raise him with the nobles of his family, and they will be favored over creatures as eagles are favored over the rest of the birds, and as a spring in a meadow is favored over what surrounds it. Then a caller will call: Where are those who were not distracted from reciting My Book by tending livestock? They will stand up, and one of them will be clothed with the crown of honor and given bliss in his right hand and eternity in his left. Then his parents, if they were Muslims, will be clothed with a garment better than the world and what is in it. They will say: How do we have this, when our deeds did not reach this? It will be said: Your child used to recite the Qur'an.”
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد متصل لكن سويد بن عبد العزيز ضعيف الحديث
in المطالب العالية, p. 4193
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةعن
- His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)d. 78 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ غَنْمٍمختلف في صحبتهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 123 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُهَاجِرِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 181 and 190 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقةحدثنا
- Very weak (ḍaʿīf jiddan).d. 194 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 167 AH, Abū al-Qāsim said: this is a mistake regarding his deathسُوَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِضعيف جداأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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