Sunan an-Nasa'i 5063

Translation

"According to whose recitation do you want me to recite? Because I recited seventy-odd Surahs to the Messenger of Allah [SAW] when Zaid had two braids, and was playing with the other boys."

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• al-Albani

  صحيح [لغيره]

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  in صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 5078

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 4412al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8466al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2897

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   قال
2. 2
   Hubayrah

   no harm in him (lā baʾsa bih), he was faulted for Shīʿismd. 66 AH
   هُبَيْرَةَ بْنِ يَرِيمَلا بأس به ، وقد عيب بالتشيع
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   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
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 186 AH or 187 AH or 188 AH
   عَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Al-Ḥasan b. Ismāʿīl b. Sulaymān b. al-Mujālid

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 240 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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