Sahih Muslim 808a
The virtue of al-Fatihah and the closing verse of Surat al-Baqarah; and the encouragement to recite the two verses at the end of Surat al-Baqarah
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حَدَّثَنَا مِنْجَابُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ التَّمِيمِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ مُسْهِرٍ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَنْ قَرَأَ هَاتَيْنِ الآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Minjāb b. al-Ḥārith al-Tamīmī
- Ibn Mushir
- al-Aʿmash
- Ibrāhīm
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd
- ʿAlqamah b. Qays
- Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
If anyone recites the two verses at the end of Surah al-Baqara at night, they would suffice for him 'Abd al-Rahman said: I met Abu Mas'ud and he was circumambulating the House (of Allah) and asked him about this (tradition) and he narrated it to me from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Notes
قَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ فَلَقِيتُ أَبَا مَسْعُودٍ وَهُوَ يَطُوفُ بِالْبَيْتِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَحَدَّثَنِي بِهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 4008Sahih al-Bukhari 5040al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15645al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15648al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7968
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 40 AH, or before it or after it, or: 41 AH, or: 42 AHأَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّصحابي جليلحدثنى
- 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 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيراعن
- 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 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), with some odd reports (gharāʾib) after he went blindd. 189 AHابْنُ مُسْهِرٍثقة له غرائب بعد ما أضرأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AHمِنْجَابُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ التَّمِيمِيُّثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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