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Sunan an-Nasa'i 5038

The Parable of the Believer and the Hypocrite who Read the Qur'an

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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَّ أَبَا مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيَّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ الَّذِي يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ مَثَلُ الْأُتْرُجَّةِ طَعْمُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَرِيحُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَمَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ الَّذِي لَا يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ كَمَثَلِ التَّمْرَةِ طَعْمُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَلَا رِيحَ لَهَا وَمَثَلُ الْمُنَافِقِ الَّذِي يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ كَمَثَلِ الرَّيْحَانَةِ رِيحُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَطَعْمُهَا مُرٌّ وَمَثَلُ الْمُنَافِقِ الَّذِي لَا يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ كَمَثَلِ الْحَنْظَلَةِ طَعْمُهَا مُرٌّ وَلَا رِيحَ لَهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
  2. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
  3. Saʿīd
  4. Qatādah
  5. Anas b. Mālik
  6. Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Prophet [SAW] said: 'The parable of the believer who recites the Qur'an is that of a citron, the taste and smell of which are good. The parable of a believer who does not read the Qur'an is that of a date, the taste of which is good but it has no smell. The parable of a hypocrite who reads the Qur'an is that of basil, the smell of which is good but its taste is bitter. And the parable of a hypocrite who does not read the Qur'an is that of a colocynth (bitter-apple), the taste of which is bitter and it has no smell.'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
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al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح النسائي, p. 5053fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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. 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
    أن
  2. Anas b. Mālik
    a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  3. Qatādah b. Diʿāmah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
    قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. Saʿīd
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
    سَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
    حدثنا
  5. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
    يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .
    حدثنا
  6. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظ
    أخبرنا
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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