Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2946

Translation

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! In how much time may I recite the Qur'an?' He said: 'Complete it in one month.' I said: 'I am able to do more than that.' He said: 'Then complete it in twenty (days).' I said: 'I am able to do more than that.' He said: 'Then finish it in fifteen (days).' I said: 'I am able to do more than that.' He said: 'Finish it in ten (days).' I said: 'I am able to do more than that.' He said: 'Finish it in five (days).' I said: 'I am able to do more than that.'" He ('Abdullah bin 'Amr) said: "But he did not permit me."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ يُسْتَغْرَبُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَرُوِيَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَمْ يَفْقَهْ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثٍ وَرُوِيَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَهُ اقْرَإِ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَرْبَعِينَ قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَلاَ نُحِبُّ لِلرَّجُلِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ عَلَيْهِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا وَلَمْ يَقْرَإِ الْقُرْآنَ لِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ لاَ يُقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنُ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثٍ لِلْحَدِيثِ الَّذِي رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَرَخَّصَ فِيهِ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ وَرُوِيَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي رَكْعَةٍ يُوتِرُ بِهَا وَرُوِيَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي رَكْعَةٍ فِي الْكَعْبَةِ وَالتَّرْتِيلُ فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن صحيح غريب

  machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), sound (ṣaḥīḥ), gharīb hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3211
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسن صحيح غريب من هذا الوجه

  machine translationGood, sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ), gharīb from this route. Report a problem

  in سنن الترمذي, p. 2946

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 6876al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8736Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8664Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5985Musnad al-Bazzar 2353

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

   One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Burdah b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
   أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة
   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
   Muṭarrif

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 133 AH, or: 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   مُطَرِّفٍثقة فاضل
   عن
5. 5
   Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad

   Trustworthy (thiqah), though he was considered weak (ḍuʿʿifa) in his narrations from al-Thawrī.d. 199 AH, or 200 AH
   أَبِيثقة ضُعِّف في الثوري
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUbayd b. Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad al-Qurashī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AH
   عُبَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْبَاطِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْقُرَشِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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