Glory of the Quran
The merits of the Holy Quran are briefly presented, as an introduction to the Tafseer Hubeali 2nd Edition as per the Ahadeeth of Holy Prophet-saww and Ahl Al-Bayt-asws
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ غَالِبٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا جَمَعَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ إِذَا هُمْ بِشَخْصٍ قَدْ أَقْبَلَ لَمْ يُرَ قَطُّ أَحْسَنُ صُورَةً مِنْهُ فَإِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ هُوَ الْقُرْآنُ قَالُوا هَذَا مِنَّا هَذَا أَحْسَنُ شَيْءٍ رَأَيْنَا
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ibrahim Bin Abdul Hameed, from Is’haq Bin Ghalib who said,
‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘When Allah-azwj will Gather the former ones and the latter ones, they would be with a person who would be in front of them. They would not have seen an image better than it, at all. So when the Momineen will look at him, and he would be the Quran, they would be saying, ‘This one is from us. This is the best thing we have seen’.
فَإِذَا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِمْ جَازَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ الشُّهَدَاءُ حَتَّى إِذَا انْتَهَى إِلَى آخِرِهِمْ جَازَهُمْ فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا الْقُرْآنُ فَيَجُوزُهُمْ كُلَّهُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا انْتَهَى إِلَى الْمُرْسَلِينَ فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا الْقُرْآنُ فَيَجُوزُهُمْ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى الْمَلَائِكَةِ فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا الْقُرْآنُ
So when he ends up to them, he would go past them. Then the martyrs would look at him, until when he ends up to the last of them, and goes past them. So they would be saying: ‘This is the Quran’. So he would go past them until when he ends up to the Mursil Prophets-as, and they-as would be saying: ‘This is the Quran’. So he would go past them until he ends up to the Angels, and they would be saying: ‘This is the Quran’.
فَيَجُوزُهُمْ ثُمَّ يَنْتَهِي حَتَّى يَقِفَ عَنْ يَمِينِ الْعَرْشِ فَيَقُولُ الْجَبَّارُ وَ عِزَّتِي وَ جَلَالِي وَ ارْتِفَاعِ مَكَانِي لَأُكْرِمَنَّ الْيَوْمَ مَنْ أَكْرَمَكَ وَ لَأُهِينَنَّ مَنْ أَهَانَكَ .
So he would be going past them. Then he would end up until he pauses on the right of the Throne. So the Compeller would be Saying: “By My-azwj Mighty and My-azwj Majesty, and the Loftiness of My-azwj Position! Today I-azwj shall Honour the one who honoured you, and I-azwj shall Dishonour the one who dishonoured you”’.[1]
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ النَّضْرِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ يَجِيءُ الْقُرْآنُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فِي أَحْسَنِ مَنْظُورٍ إِلَيْهِ صُورَةً فَيَمُرُّ بِالْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ مِنَّا فَيُجَاوِزُهُمْ إِلَى النَّبِيِّينَ فَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنَّا فَيُجَاوِزُهُمْ إِلَى الْمَلَائِكَةِ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ فَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنَّا حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ أَظْمَأْتُ هَوَاجِرَهُ وَ أَسْهَرْتُ لَيْلَهُ فِي دَارِ الدُّنْيَا وَ فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ لَمْ أُظْمِئْ هَوَاجِرَهُ وَ لَمْ أُسْهِرْ لَيْلَهُ
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Salim, from Ahmad Bin Al Nazar, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘The Quran will come on the Day of Judgment in the best perspective of the image. So it would pass by the Muslims, and they would be saying, ‘This is the man from us’. So it would go past them to the Prophets-as, and they-as would be saying: ‘He is from us’. So it would go past them to the Angels of Proximity, and they would be saying: ‘He is from us’; to the extent that it would end up to the Lord-azwj of the Honour, Mighty and Majestic and it would be saying: ‘O Lord-azwj! So and so, son of so and so, his mouth was thirsty, and he observed vigils during his nights in the house of the world; and so and so, son of so and so, his mouth was not thirsty and he did not observe vigils during his night’.
فَيَقُولُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَدْخِلْهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ عَلَى مَنَازِلِهِمْ فَيَقُومُ فَيَتَّبِعُونَهُ فَيَقُولُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ اقْرَأْ وَ ارْقَهْ قَالَ فَيَقْرَأُ وَ يَرْقَى حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ مَنْزِلَتَهُ الَّتِي هِيَ لَهُ فَيَنْزِلُهَا .
So the Blessed and High would be Saying: “Enter them into the Paradise upon their (relevant) status. So they would be arising and following it. So it would be Saying to the Momin: ‘Recite and ascend’. He-asws said: ‘So he (the Momin) would recite and ascend until each man from them would reach his dwelling which is for him, so it would lodge him (therein)’.[2]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ الدَّوَاوِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ثَلَاثَةٌ دِيوَانٌ فِيهِ النِّعَمُ وَ دِيوَانٌ فِيهِ الْحَسَنَاتُ وَ دِيوَانٌ فِيهِ السَّيِّئَاتُ فَيُقَابَلُ بَيْنَ دِيوَانِ النِّعَمِ وَ دِيوَانِ الْحَسَنَاتِ
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and a number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from Yunus Bin Ammar who said,
‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘The registers on the Day of Judgment would be three registers – a register in which are (recorded) the Bounties, and a register in which are (recorded) the good deeds, and a register in which are (recorded) the evil deeds.
فَتَسْتَغْرِقُ النِّعَمُ عَامَّةَ الْحَسَنَاتِ وَ يَبْقَى دِيوَانُ السَّيِّئَاتِ فَيُدْعَى بِابْنِ آدَمَ الْمُؤْمِنِ لِلْحِسَابِ فَيَتَقَدَّمُ الْقُرْآنُ أَمَامَهُ فِي أَحْسَنِ صُورَةٍ فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَنَا الْقُرْآنُ وَ هَذَا عَبْدُكَ الْمُؤْمِنُ قَدْ كَانَ يُتْعِبُ نَفْسَهُ بِتِلَاوَتِي وَ يُطِيلُ لَيْلَهُ بِتَرْتِيلِي وَ تَفِيضُ عَيْنَاهُ إِذَا تَهَجَّدَ فَأَرْضِهِ كَمَا أَرْضَانِي
So the Bounties would generally cover the good deeds, and there would remain the evil deeds. So the son of Adam-as would be called for the Reckoning, and the Quran would walk in front of him in an excellent image, and it would be saying: ‘O Lord-azwj! I am the Quran, and this is Your-azwj servant who used to exhaust himself by my recitation, and prolong his nights by my slow recitation, and flooded his eyes (with tears) when he (prayed the) Tahajjud Salāt, therefore Please him just as You-azwj have Pleased me’.
قَالَ فَيَقُولُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ عَبْدِيَ ابْسُطْ يَمِينَكَ فَيَمْلَؤُهَا مِنْ رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْجَبَّارِ وَ يَمْلَأُ شِمَالَهُ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَذِهِ الْجَنَّةُ مُبَاحَةٌ لَكَ فَاقْرَأْ وَ اصْعَدْ فَإِذَا قَرَأَ آيَةً صَعِدَ دَرَجَةً .
He-asws said: ‘So the Mighty, the Compeller would be Saying: “My-azwj servant! Extend your right hand”. So it would be Filled with the Pleasure of Allah-azwj, the Mighty, the Compeller, and his left hand would be Filled from the Mercy of Allah-azwj. Then it would be said to him: ‘This is the Paradise, Gifted for you. Therefore recite and ascend. So whenever he recites a Verse, he would ascend a level’.[3]
The Holy Quran – A Creation Or Creator?
و عن زرارة قال: سألت أبا جعفر (عليه السلام) عن القرآن، فقال لي: «لا خالق و لا مخلوق، و لكنه كلام الخالق».
And from Zurara who said,
‘I asked Abu Ja’far-asws about the Quran, so he-asws said to me: ‘(It is) neither Creator nor a created, but it is the Speech of the Creator’’.[4]
عن ياسر الخادم، عن الرضا (عليه السلام) أنه سئل عن القرآن، فقال: «لعن الله المرجئة، و لعن الله أبا حنيفة، إنه كلام الله غير مخلوق حيث ما تكلمت به، و حيث ما قرأت و نطقت، فهو كلام و خبر و قصص».
From Yasser Al Khadim,
from Al Reza-asws having been asked about the Quran, so he-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj Curse the Murjiites, and may Allah-azwj Curse Abu Haneefa! It is the Speech of Allah-azwj other than a Created (thing) where you said with it, and what you recited and you spoke with it, so it is speech and news and stories’ .[5]
و عن زرارة، قال: سألته عن القرآن، أ خالق هو؟ قال: «لا». قلت: أ مخلوق؟ قال: «لا، و لكنه كلام الخالق» يعني أنه كلام الخالق بالفعل.
And from Zurara who said,
‘I asked him-asws about the Quran, ‘Is it Creator, Him-azwj?’ He-asws said: ‘No’. I said, ‘A creation?’ He-asws said: ‘’No, but it is a Speech of the Creator’. Meaning, it is the Speech of the Creator by the deed’.
Description of the Holy Quran
و عن الحسن بن موسى الخشاب رفعه، قال:
And from Al Hassan Bin Musa Al Khashab, raising it, said,
قال أبو عبدالله (عليه السلام): و قال رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله): القرآن هدى من الضلالة، و تبيان من العمى، و استقالة من العثرة، و نور من الظلمة، و ضياء من الأحزان، و عصمة من الهلكة، و رشد من الغواية، و بيان من الفتن، و بلاغ من الدنيا إلى الآخرة، و فيه كمال دينكم. فهذه صفة رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) للقرآن، و ما عدل أحد عن القرآن إلا إلى النار».
Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘And Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘The Quran is a Guidance from the straying, and a clarification from the blindness, and a departure from the stumbling, and a light from the darkness, and a brightness from the sorrows, and a protection from the destruction, and a right way from the error, and an explanation from the strife, and a deliverer from the world to the Hereafter, and in it is the perfection of your Religion’. So this is the description of Rasool-Allah-saww of the Quran, and no one would digress from the Quran except to the Fire’’.[6]
حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ وُهَيْبِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ زَاجِرٌ وَ آمِرٌ يَأْمُرُ بِالْجَنَّةِ وَ يَزْجُرُ عَنِ النَّارِ .
Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Muhammad, from Wuheyb Bin Hafs, from Abu Baseer who said,
‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘The Quran is a Blocker and is a Commander. It Commands with (going to) the Paradise and Blocks from (going to) the Fire’.[7]
Structure of the Holy Quran
عن الاصبغ بن نباتة قال: قال علي عليه السلام: نزل القرآن أرباعا فربع فينا، وربع في عدونا، وربع سنن وأمثال وربع فرائض وأحكام فلنا كرائم القران.
From Al Asbagh Bin Nabata who said,
Ali-asws said: ‘The Quran has been Revealed in quarters, so a quarter is regarding us-asws, and a quarter is regarding our-asws enemies, and a quarter is regarding the Sunnah and the examples, and a quarter is regarding the Obligations and the Ordinances. So for us-asws is the Prestige of the Quran’.[8]
The Esoteric and the Exoteric Meanings
عنه: عن علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن عمر بن أذينة، عن الفضيل بن يسار، قال: قلت لأبي عبدالله (عليه السلام): إن الناس يقولون: إن القرآن نزل على سبعة أحرف؟ فقال: «كذبوا أعداء الله، و لكنه نزل على حرف واحد، من عند الواحد».
From him, from Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Al Fazeyl Bin Yasaar who said,
‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws that, ‘The people are saying that the Quran was Revealed upon seven letters?’ So he-asws said: ‘They lie, enemies of Allah-azwj! But, it was Revealed upon one letter from the Presence of the One-azwj’.[9]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ( عليهم السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ فِي دَارِ هُدْنَةٍ وَ أَنْتُمْ عَلَى ظَهْرِ سَفَرٍ وَ السَّيْرُ بِكُمْ سَرِيعٌ وَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ وَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ يُبْلِيَانِ كُلَّ جَدِيدٍ وَ يُقَرِّبَانِ كُلَّ بَعِيدٍ وَ يَأْتِيَانِ بِكُلِّ مَوْعُودٍ فَأَعِدُّوا الْجَهَازَ لِبُعْدِ الْمَجَازِ
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, from his-asws forefathers-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O you people! You are in a house of truce, and you are upon the back of a journey and the travel is quick with you, and you have seen the night and the day, and the sun and the moon turning every new (thing) into old, and every remote (thing) to be close by, and every promised (thing) has come up, therefore prepare the ship (of life) for the long passageway’.
قَالَ فَقَامَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا دَارُ الْهُدْنَةِ قَالَ دَارُ بَلَاغٍ وَ انْقِطَاعٍ فَإِذَا الْتَبَسَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْفِتَنُ كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَإِنَّهُ شَافِعٌ مُشَفَّعٌ وَ مَاحِلٌ مُصَدَّقٌ وَ مَنْ جَعَلَهُ أَمَامَهُ قَادَهُ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ وَ مَنْ جَعَلَهُ خَلْفَهُ سَاقَهُ إِلَى النَّارِ وَ هُوَ الدَّلِيلُ يَدُلُّ عَلَى خَيْرِ سَبِيلٍ
So Al-Miqdad Bin al-Aswad-ra arose and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! And what is the house of truce?’ He-saww said: ‘A house of communication and interruption. So when the strife confuses upon you like the interruption of the dark night, so upon you is to be with the Quran, for it is an interceder who would be interceded with, and an inviter who would be ratified; and the one who makes it to be in front of him, it would Guide him to the Paradise, and the one who makes it to be behind him, it would usher him into the Fire, and it is a pointer upon the best way.
وَ هُوَ كِتَابٌ فِيهِ تَفْصِيلٌ وَ بَيَانٌ وَ تَحْصِيلٌ وَ هُوَ الْفَصْلُ لَيْسَ بِالْهَزْلِ وَ لَهُ ظَهْرٌ وَ بَطْنٌ فَظَاهِرُهُ حُكْمٌ وَ بَاطِنُهُ عِلْمٌ ظَاهِرُهُ أَنِيقٌ وَ بَاطِنُهُ عَمِيقٌ لَهُ نُجُومٌ وَ عَلَى نُجُومِهِ نُجُومٌ لَا تُحْصَى عَجَائِبُهُ وَ لَا تُبْلَى غَرَائِبُهُ
And it is a Book wherein is detail, and explanation, and achievement, and it is the detail not being with the amusement; and for it there is an apparent and a hidden (meaning). So it’s apparent is wisdom, and its hidden is knowledge. Its apparent is profound, and its hidden is bottomless. There are luminaries for it, and upon its luminaries, are (more) luminaries. Neither can its wonderments be counted nor do its marvels wear out.
فِيهِ مَصَابِيحُ الْهُدَى وَ مَنَارُ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ دَلِيلٌ عَلَى الْمَعْرِفَةِ لِمَنْ عَرَفَ الصِّفَةَ فَلْيَجْلُ جَالٍ بَصَرَهُ وَ لْيُبْلِغِ الصِّفَةَ نَظَرَهُ يَنْجُ مِنْ عَطَبٍ وَ يَتَخَلَّصْ مِنْ نَشَبٍ فَإِنَّ التَّفَكُّرَ حَيَاةُ قَلْبِ الْبَصِيرِ كَمَا يَمْشِي الْمُسْتَنِيرُ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ بِالنُّورِ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِحُسْنِ التَّخَلُّصِ وَ قِلَّةِ التَّرَبُّصِ .
Therein are lanterns of guidance, and minarets of wisdom, and it evidences upon the recognition to the one-asws who understands the capacity, so it brightens the brightness of his insight and lets his look reach the capacity. It rescues from the corruption and finishes off from the entanglements, for the pondering is a revival of the heart of insight just as the enlightened one walks in the darkness with the light. Therefore, it is upon you with the excellent sincerity and without having second thoughts’.[10]
عن محمد بن مسلم، قال: قال أبو جعفر (عليه السلام): «يا محمد، إذا سمعت الله ذكر أحدا من هذه الأمة بخير، فهم نحن، و إذا سمعت الله ذكر قوما بسوء ممن مضى، فهم عدونا».
From Muhammad Bin Muslim who said,
‘Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘O Muhammad! When you hear Allah-azwj Mention anyone from this community with goodness, so we-asws are they, and when you hear Allah-azwj Mention a people with evil, from the ones of the past, so they are our-asws enemies’’.[11]
قال جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليه السلام: أما والله لوقرئ القرآن كما انزل لالفيتمونا فيه مسمين كما سمي من كان قبلنا،
Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Sadiq-asws said: ‘But, by Allah-azwj! If the Quran is recited as it was revealed, there would have been therein our-asws names just like the names of the ones who were before us-asws’. [12]
قال: و يؤيد هذا ما رواه أبو جعفر الطوسي بإسناده إلى الفضل بن شاذان، عن داود بن كثير، قال: قلت لأبي عبدالله (عليه السلام) أنتم الصلاة في كتاب الله عز و جل، و أنتم الزكاة، و أنتم الحج؟ فقال: «يا داود، نحن الصلاة في كتاب الله عز و جل، و نحن الزكاة، و نحن الصيام، و نحن الحج، و نحن الشهر الحرام، و نحن البلد الحرام، و نحن كعبة الله، و نحن قبلة الله، و نحن وجه الله،
And it is supported by this, what has been reported Abu Ja’far Al Tusi by his chain going up to Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, from Dawood Bin Kaseer who said,
‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘You-asws (Imams-asws) are the Salat in the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and you-asws are the Zakat, and you-asws are the Hajj?’ He-asws said: ‘O Dawood! We-asws are the Salat in the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and we-asws are the Zakat, and we-asws are the Fasts, and we-asws are the Hajj the Kaaba of Allah-azwj, and we-asws are the Sacred Month, and we-asws are the Sacred city, and we-asws are the Kaaba of Allah-azwj, and we-asws are the Qiblah of Allah-azwj, and we-asws are the Face of Allah-azwj.
قال الله تعالى: فَأَيْنَما تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ ، و نحن الآيات، و نحن البينات.
Allah-azwj Said: “therefore, wherever you turn, there is Allah’s Face [2:115]”, and we-asws are the Signs, and we-asws are the Evidence’.
و عدونا في كتاب الله: الفحشاء و المنكر و البغي، و الخمر و الميسر، و الأنصاب و الأزلام، و الأصنام و الأوثان، و الجبت و الطاغوت، و الميتة و الدم و لحم الخنزير.
And our-asws enemies in the Book of Allah-azwj are: -The immoral, and the deniers, and the oppressors, and the intoxicants, and the gambling, and the stone altars, and the divining arrows, and the idols, and the images, and the false deities, and the dead and the blood, and the flesh of the swine’.[13]
Content of the Holy Quran
عن سماعة، قال: قال أبو عبدالله (عليه السلام): «إن الله أنزل عليكم كتابه، و هو الصادق البر، فيه خبركم، و خبر من قبلكم، و خبر من بعدكم، و خبر السماء و الأرض، و لو أتاكم من يخبركم عن ذلك لتعجبتم من ذلك».
From Sama’at who said,
‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj Sent down His-azwj Book unto you all, and He-azwj is the Truthful, Righteous. Therein is your news and the news of the ones before you, and news of the ones (to come) after you, and news of the sky and the earth; and had someone come to you informing you all about that, you would have been astounded from that’’.[14]
و عنه (عليه السلام): «القرآن ظاهره أنيق، و باطنه عميق، لا تفنى عجائبه، و لا تنقضي غرائبه، و لا تكشف الظلمات إلا به».
And from him-asws: ‘The Quran (is such that), its apparent is elegant, and its hidden is deep. Its wonders do not cease nor does its strangeness expire, nor can the darkness be removed except by it’’.[15]
عن محمد بن يعقوب: عن محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن علي بن حديد، عن مرازم، عن أبي عبدالله (عليه السلام)، قال: «إن الله تبارك و تعالى أنزل في القرآن تبيان كل شيء، حتى- و الله- ما ترك شيئا يحتاج إليه العباد، لا يستطيع عبد يقول لو كان هذا أنزل في القرآن، إلا و قد أنزله الله فيه».
From Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Hadeed, from Marazim,
from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Allah-azwj Blessed and High Revealed in the Quran an explanation of everything, to the extent – by Allah-azwj – He-azwj did not neglect anything the servants would be needy to. There is no leeway for a servant to be saying, ‘If only this had been Revealed in the Quran’, except and Allah-azwj has already Revealed in it’’.[16]
Revelation Sequence
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ أَوَّلُ مَا نَزَلَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ وَ آخِرُهُ إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Mansour Bin Al Abbas, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Al Sarriy, from his uncle Ali Bin Al Sariy,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The first of what was Revealed upon Rasool-Allah-saww was In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful, Read in the name of your Lord Who Created [96:1] and the last of it (Chapter Revealed) was When there comes the help of Allah and the victory’ [110:1].[17]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ شَهْرُ رَمَضانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ وَ إِنَّمَا أُنْزِلَ فِي عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً بَيْنَ أَوَّلِهِ وَ آخِرِهِ
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Al Qasim, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman, from Dawood, from Hafs Bin Giyas,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, said, ‘I asked him-asws about the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic The Month of Ramazan is that in which the Quran was Revealed [2:185], but rather it was Revealed during twenty years between its first and its last’.
فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ جُمْلَةً وَاحِدَةً فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ إِلَى الْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ فِي طُولِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً
So Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘The Quran was Revealed as a whole in one go during the Month of Ramazan to the Oft-Frequented House (البيت المعمور), and then it was Revealed in length over twenty years’.
ثُمَّ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نَزَلَتْ صُحُفُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي أَوَّلِ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ أُنْزِلَتِ التَّوْرَاةُ لِسِتٍّ مَضَيْنَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ أُنْزِلَ الْإِنْجِيلُ لِثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ لَيْلَةً خَلَتْ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ أُنْزِلَ الزَّبُورُ لِثَمَانَ عَشَرَ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ فِي ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ .
Then he-asws said: ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘The Parchment of Ibrahim-as was Revealed during the first night from the Month of Ramazan, and the Torah was Revealed when two (days) had not lapsed from the Month of Ramazan, and the Evangel, when thirteen nights from the Month of Ramazan, and the Psalms was Revealed on the eighteenth from the Month of Ramazan, and the Quran was Revealed during the twenty-third from the Month of Ramazan’.[18]
The Holy Quran and the Furqan
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ أَوْ عَنْ غَيْرِهِ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الْفُرْقَانِ أَ هُمَا شَيْئَانِ أَوْ شَيْءٌ وَاحِدٌ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) الْقُرْآنُ جُمْلَةُ الْكِتَابِ وَ الْفُرْقَانُ الْمُحْكَمُ الْوَاجِبُ الْعَمَلِ بِهِ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Sinan, or from someone else, from the one who mentioned it who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the Quran and the Furqan, are these two different things or one thing?’ So he-asws said: ‘The Quran is the total Book, and the Furqan is the Decisive, the Obligatory to be acted with’.[19]
Style of the Holy Quran
عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ( عليهما السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِلِسانٍ عَرَبِيٍّ مُبِينٍ قَالَ يُبِينُ الْأَلْسُنَ وَ لَا تُبِينُهُ الْأَلْسُنُ .
Ali Bin Muhammad, from Salih Bin Abu Hammad, from Al Hajjal, from the one who mentioned it,
(It has been narrated) from one of the two (5th or 6th Imam-asws), said, ‘I asked him-asws about the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic In clear Arabic language [26:195]. He-asws said: ‘It (Quran) explains the languages, and the languages do not explain it’.[20]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ النَّاسَ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ نَزَلَ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ فَقَالَ كَذَبُوا أَعْدَاءُ اللَّهِ وَ لَكِنَّهُ نَزَلَ عَلَى حَرْفٍ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ الْوَاحِدِ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Al Fuzayl Bin Yasar who said,
‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘The people are saying that the Quran was Revealed upon seven Letters (Phrases)’. So he-asws said: ‘They are lying, enemies of Allah-azwj! But, it was Revealed upon one Letter (Phrase) from the Presence of the One-azwj’.[21]
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ بِإِيَّاكِ أَعْنِي وَ اسْمَعِي يَا جَارَةُ .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abdullah Bin Bukeyr,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Quran was Revealed Meaning you (as the second person) and Making the neighbours (third person) hear it’.
وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَعْنَاهُ مَا عَاتَبَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ عَلَى نَبِيِّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَهُوَ يَعْنِي بِهِ مَا قَدْ مَضَى فِي الْقُرْآنِ مِثْلُ قَوْلِهِ وَ لَوْ لا أَنْ ثَبَّتْناكَ لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئاً قَلِيلًا عَنَى بِذَلِكَ غَيْرَهُ .
And in another report,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Its Meaning what Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Reproached with upon His-azwj Prophet-as, so its Meaning is what has continued in the Quran, for example His-azwj Words And had We not Affirmed you, you would have almost inclined towards them a little [17:74], Meaning by that others than him-saww’. (i.e., the word ‘you’ is not addressed to Rasool-Allah-saww, but to the general Muslims).[22]
Learning the Holy Quran
و عنه، عن الحفار، قال: حدثنا أبو عمرو عثمان بن أحمد بن عبدالله الوراق- المعروف بابن السماك- قال: حدثنا أبو قلابة عبد الملك بن محمد بن عبدالله الرقاشي، قال: حدثني أبي، و معلى بن أسد، قالا: حدثنا عبد الواحد بن زياد، عن عبد الرحمن بن إسحاق، عن النعمان بن سعد، عن علي (عليه السلام): «أن النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) قال:
And from him, from Al Hafar, from Amro Usman Bin Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al Waraq, well known as Ibn Al Samaak, from Abu Qalaba Abdul Malik Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Raqashy, from his father, and Moala Bin Asad, from Abdul Wahid Bin Ziyad, from Abdul Rahman Bin Is’haq, from Al Numan Bin Sa’ad,
خياركم من تعلم القرآن و علمه».
From Ali-asws: ‘The Prophet (s.a.w) said: ‘The best of you is the one who learns the Quran and its knowledge’’.[23]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ لَا يَمُوتَ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ أَوْ يَكُونَ فِي تَعْلِيمِهِ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Suleym Al Fara’a, from a man,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘It is befitting for the Momin that he does not die until he learns the Quran, or happens to be in its learning (process)’.[24]
Memorising the Holy Quran
الشيخ في (أماليه): بإسناده عن محمد بن القاسم الأنباري، قال: حدثنا أبو بكر محمد بن علي بن عمر، قال: حدثنا داود بن رشيد، قال: حدثنا الوليد بن مسلم، عن عبدالله بن لهيعة، عن مشرح بن هاعان، عن عقبة ابن عامر، قال: قال رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله): «لا يعذب الله قلبا وعى القرآن».
The Sheykh in his Amaali, by his chain, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim Al Anbary, from Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Umar, from Dawood Bin Rasheyd, from Al Walid Bin Muslim, from Abdullah Bin Lahiya, from Mashrah Bin Ha’an, from Uqba Ibn Aamir who said,
‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj will not Punish a heart retaining the Quran’’.[25]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الْحَافِظُ لِلْقُرْآنِ الْعَامِلُ بِهِ مَعَ السَّفَرَةِ الْكِرَامِ الْبَرَرَةِ .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Al Fuzayl Bin Yasaar,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The memoriser of the Quran, the one acting by it, would be with the Ambassadors (Mursil Prophets-as), the honourable, the righteous’.[26]
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ الْخَشَّابِ عَنْ أَبِي كَهْمَسٍ الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ ثُمَّ نَسِيَهُ فَرَدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثاً أَ عَلَيْهِ فِيهِ حَرَجٌ قَالَ لَا .
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abdullah, from Al Abbas Bin Aamir, from Al Hajjaj Al Khashhab, from Abu Kahmasy Al Haysam Bin Ubeyd who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about a man who recites the Quran, then forgets it’, and I reiterated it to him-asws three (times), ‘Is there any blame upon him?’ He-asws said: ‘No’.[27]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْمَغْرَاءِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَنْ نَسِيَ سُورَةً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مُثِّلَتْ لَهُ فِي صُورَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ وَ دَرَجَةٍ رَفِيعَةٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَإِذَا رَآهَا قَالَ مَا أَنْتِ مَا أَحْسَنَكِ لَيْتَكِ لِي فَيَقُولُ أَ مَا تَعْرِفُنِي أَنَا سُورَةُ كَذَا وَ كَذَا وَ لَوْ لَمْ تَنْسَنِي رَفَعْتُكَ إِلَى هَذَا .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Al Magra’a, from Abu Baseer who said,
‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘The one who forgets a Chapter from the Quran, it would be resembled for him in a beautiful image, and be in a lofty level in the Paradise. So when he sees it, he would say, ‘What are you? How beautiful! If only you were for me’. So it would be saying: ‘But, do you not recognise me? I am Chapter such and such, and had you not forgotten me, I would have raised you to this (level)’.[28]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِنَّ الَّذِي يُعَالِجُ الْقُرْآنَ وَ يَحْفَظُهُ بِمَشَقَّةٍ مِنْهُ وَ قِلَّةِ حِفْظٍ لَهُ أَجْرَانِ .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad and Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Al Fuzayl Bin Yasaar,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, said, ‘I heard him-asws saying: ‘The one who addresses the Quran and memorises it with difficulty from him, and has scarce memorisation, for him would be two Recompenses (double)’.[29]
General Recitation Of The Holy Quran
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ لَيْثِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نَوِّرُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ بِتِلَاوَةِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ لَا تَتَّخِذُوهَا قُبُوراً كَمَا فَعَلَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَ النَّصَارَى صَلَّوْا فِي الْكَنَائِسِ وَ الْبِيَعِ وَ عَطَّلُوا بُيُوتَهُمْ فَإِنَّ الْبَيْتَ إِذَا كَثُرَ فِيهِ تِلَاوَةُ الْقُرْآنِ كَثُرَ خَيْرُهُ وَ اتَّسَعَ أَهْلُهُ وَ أَضَاءَ لِأَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ كَمَا تُضِيءُ نُجُومُ السَّمَاءِ لِأَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al Fuzayl Bin Usman, from Lays Bin Abu Suleym, raising it,
‘He-asws said: ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘Illuminate your houses by the recitation of the Quran and do not be taking it as graves just as the Jews and the Christians did. They pray in their churches and the synagogues, and they left their houses as inactive, for the house, when the recitation of the Quran is frequented in it, would be of abundant goodness, and (sustenance of) its inhabitants would be Expanded, and it would shine for the inhabitants of the sky just as the stars shine for the inhabitants of the earth’.[30]
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى مَوْلَى آلِ سَامٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْبَيْتَ إِذَا كَانَ فِيهِ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ يَتْلُو الْقُرْآنَ يَتَرَاءَاهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ كَمَا يَتَرَاءَى أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا الْكَوْكَبَ الدُّرِّيَّ فِي السَّمَاءِ .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Khalid, and Al Husayn Bin Saeed, altogether from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Yahya Bin Imran Al Halby, from Abd Al A’ala, a slave of the family of Saam,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The house in which there was a Muslim person reciting the Quran, the inhabitants of the sky would see it just as the inhabitants of the world seen the shining star in the sky’.[31]
Quantity Of Recitation
عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الْقُرْآنُ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ فَقَدْ يَنْبَغِي لِلْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ فِي عَهْدِهِ وَ أَنْ يَقْرَأَ مِنْهُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسِينَ آيَةً .
Ali, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Quran is a Covenant of Allah-azwj to His-azwj creatures. Thus, it is befitting for the Muslim person that he looks into his covenant, and that he recites fifty Verses from it, during every day,’.[32]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ قَالَ لَا يُعْجِبُنِي أَنْ تَقْرَأَهُ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ شَهْرٍ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from Al Husayn Bin Al Mukhtar, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah who said,
‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘Can I recite the (whole) Quran in a night?’ He-asws said: ‘I-asws do not like it if you were to recite it in less than a month’.[33]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ فَقَالَ لَا قَالَ فَفِي لَيْلَتَيْنِ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَفِي ثَلَاثٍ قَالَ هَا وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from one of his companions, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza who said,
‘I went over to Abu Abdullah-asws, and Abu Baseer said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Should I recite the (whole) Quran in a Month of Ramazan in a night?’ So he-asws said: ‘No’. He said, ‘So in two nights?’ He-asws said: ‘No’. He said, ‘So in three?’ He-asws said: ‘Ha!’, and gestured by his-asws hand.
ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ إِنَّ لِرَمَضَانَ حَقّاً وَ حُرْمَةً لَا يُشْبِهُهُ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الشُّهُورِ وَ كَانَ أَصْحَابُ مُحَمَّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يَقْرَأُ أَحَدُهُمُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي شَهْرٍ أَوْ أَقَلَّ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ لَا يُقْرَأُ هَذْرَمَةً وَ لَكِنْ يُرَتَّلُ تَرْتِيلًا
Then he-asws said: ‘O Abu Muhammad! For (the Month of) Ramazan there is a right and a sanctity. Nothing resembles it from the (other) months; and it was so that the companions of Muhammad-saww, one of them would recite the (whole) Quran during a month, or less. The Quran is not to be recited jabbering, but it is to be recited slowly and with clarity (as it ought to be recited).
فَإِذَا مَرَرْتَ بِآيَةٍ فِيهَا ذِكْرُ الْجَنَّةِ فَقِفْ عِنْدَهَا وَ سَلِ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الْجَنَّةَ وَ إِذَا مَرَرْتَ بِآيَةٍ فِيهَا ذِكْرُ النَّارِ فَقِفْ عِنْدَهَا وَ تَعَوَّذْ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ النَّارِ .
So whenever you pass by a Verse wherein is a Mention of the Paradise, so pause at it and ask Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic for the Paradise; and whenever you pass by a Verse wherein is Mention of the Fire, so pause at it and seek Refuge with Allah-azwj from the Fire’.[34]
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ فِي كَمْ أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْهُ أَخْمَاساً اقْرَأْهُ أَسْبَاعاً أَمَا إِنَّ عِنْدِي مُصْحَفاً مُجَزًّى أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ جُزْءاً .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhamad Bin Al Husayn, from Ali Bin Al Nu’man, from Yaqoub Bin Shuayb, from Husayn Bin Khalid,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘In how much (time) should I recite the (whole) Quran?’ So he-asws said: ‘Recite it in fifths or sevenths. But, with me-asws there is a Parchment sectioned upon fourteen parts’.[35]
Rewards For The Recitation
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ابْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ قَائِماً فِي صَلَاتِهِ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ مِائَةَ حَسَنَةٍ وَ مَنْ قَرَأَهُ فِي صَلَاتِهِ جَالِساً كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ خَمْسِينَ حَسَنَةً وَ مَنْ قَرَأَهُ فِي غَيْرِ صَلَاتِهِ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Muaz Bin Muslim, from Abdullah Ibn Suleyman,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘The one who recites the Quran standing during his Salāt, Allah-azwj would Write for him, with every letter, one hundred good deeds; and the one who recites during his Salāt, seated, Allah-azwj would Write for him with every letter, fifty good deeds; and the one who recites during other than his Salāt, Allah-azwj would Write for him, with every letter, ten good deeds’.[36]
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنِ اسْتَمَعَ حَرْفاً مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ غَيْرِ قِرَاءَةٍ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ حَسَنَةً وَ مَحَا عَنْهُ سَيِّئَةً وَ رَفَعَ لَهُ دَرَجَةً
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ali Bin Hadeed, from Mansour, from Muhammad Bin Bashir,
(It has been narrated) from Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, said, ‘And this Hadeeth has been reported from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The one who listens intently to a letter from the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic from without a recitation, Allah-azwj would Write for him a good deed and Delete an evil deed from him, and Raise a Level for him.
وَ مَنْ قَرَأَ نَظَراً مِنْ غَيْرِ صَوْتٍ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ حَسَنَةً وَ مَحَا عَنْهُ سَيِّئَةً وَ رَفَعَ لَهُ دَرَجَةً وَ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ مِنْهُ حَرْفاً ظَاهِراً كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ وَ مَحَا عَنْهُ عَشْرَ سَيِّئَاتٍ وَ رَفَعَ لَهُ عَشْرَ دَرَجَاتٍ
And the one who recites looking from without a voice, Allah-azwj would Write for him, for every letter, a good deed and Delete from him an evil deed, and Raise a Level for him; and the one who learns a letter from it apparently, Allah-azwj would Write for him ten good deeds and Deleted ten evil deeds from him, and Raise ten Levels for him’.
قَالَ لَا أَقُولُ بِكُلِّ آيَةٍ وَ لَكِنْ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ بَاءٍ أَوْ تَاءٍ أَوْ شِبْهِهِمَا
He-asws said: ‘I am not saying, for every Verse, but I am saying, for every letter, ‘B’, or ‘T’, or the likes of these two’.
قَالَ وَ مَنْ قَرَأَ حَرْفاً ظَاهِراً وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي صَلَاتِهِ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهِ خَمْسِينَ حَسَنَةً وَ مَحَا عَنْهُ خَمْسِينَ سَيِّئَةً وَ رَفَعَ لَهُ خَمْسِينَ دَرَجَةً وَ مَنْ قَرَأَ حَرْفاً وَ هُوَ قَائِمٌ فِي صَلَاتِهِ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ مِائَةَ حَسَنَةٍ وَ مَحَا عَنْهُ مِائَةَ سَيِّئَةٍ وَ رَفَعَ لَهُ مِائَةَ دَرَجَةٍ
He-asws said: ‘And the one who recites a Letter apparently while he is seated during his Salāt, Allah-azwj would Write for him, due to it, fifty good deeds, and Delete fifty evil deeds from him, and Raise fifty Levels for him; and the one who recites a letter while he is standing during his Salāt, Allah-azwj would Write for him, for every letter, one hundred good deeds, and Delete one hundred evil deeds from him, and Rasie one hundred Levels for him.
وَ مَنْ خَتَمَهُ كَانَتْ لَهُ دَعْوَةٌ مُسْتَجَابَةٌ مُؤَخَّرَةً أَوْ مُعَجَّلَةً قَالَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ خَتَمَهُ كُلَّهُ قَالَ خَتَمَهُ كُلَّهُ .
And the one who completes it, would be an Answered supplication for him, whether delayed or hastened’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Completing all of it?’ He-asws said: ‘Completing all of it’.[37]
ابْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَا يَمْنَعُ التَّاجِرَ مِنْكُمُ الْمَشْغُولَ فِي سُوقِهِ إِذَا رَجَعَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ أَنْ لَا يَنَامَ حَتَّى يَقْرَأَ سُورَةً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَتُكْتَبَ لَهُ مَكَانَ كُلِّ آيَةٍ يَقْرَؤُهَا عَشْرُ حَسَنَاتٍ وَ يُمْحَى عَنْهُ عَشْرُ سَيِّئَاتٍ .
Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Al Fuzayl Bin Yasaar,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘What prevents the trader from you, the one busy in his market, when he returns to his house that he does not sleep until he recites a Chapter from the Quran, so that it would be Written for him for every Verse he recites, ten good deeds, and ten evil deeds would be Deleted from him?’[38]
Completing the Holy Quran recitation
مَنْصُورٌ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) خَتْمُ الْقُرْآنِ إِلَى حَيْثُ تَعْلَمُ .
Mansour,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘I-asws heard my-asws father-asws saying: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Completion of the Quran is up to where you know’’.[39]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْقَاسَانِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ الْحَالُّ الْمُرْتَحِلُ قُلْتُ وَ مَا الْحَالُّ الْمُرْتَحِلُ قَالَ فَتْحُ الْقُرْآنِ وَ خَتْمُهُ كُلَّمَا جَاءَ بِأَوَّلِهِ ارْتَحَلَ فِي آخِرِهِ
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Ali Bin Muhammad Al Qasany, altogether from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood, from Sufyan Bin Uyayna, from Al Zuhry who said,
‘I said to Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, ‘Which of the deeds is the most superior?’ He-asws said: ‘The state of travelling’. I said, ‘And what is the state of travelling?’ He-asws said: ‘Opening the Quran and ending it. Every time one comes to the beginning of it, travels to the end of it’.
وَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مَنْ أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ الْقُرْآنَ فَرَأَى أَنَّ رَجُلًا أُعْطِيَ أَفْضَلَ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ فَقَدْ صَغَّرَ عَظِيماً وَ عَظَّمَ صَغِيراً .
And he-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘The one whom Allah-azwj has Given the Quran, so he views that (another) man has been Given (something) superior than what he has been Given, so he has belittled a great (thing), and magnified a little one’.[40]
Those Who Cannot Recite
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ عَنْ حَفْصٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُوسَى بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ لِرَجُلٍ أَ تُحِبُّ الْبَقَاءَ فِي الدُّنْيَا فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ وَ لِمَ قَالَ لِقِرَاءَةِ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ فَسَكَتَ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْدَ سَاعَةٍ يَا حَفْصُ مَنْ مَاتَ مِنْ أَوْلِيَائِنَا وَ شِيعَتِنَا وَ لَمْ يُحْسِنِ الْقُرْآنَ عُلِّمَ فِي قَبْرِهِ لِيَرْفَعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنْ دَرَجَتِهِ فَإِنَّ دَرَجَاتِ الْجَنَّةِ عَلَى قَدْرِ آيَاتِ الْقُرْآنِ يُقَالُ لَهُ اقْرَأْ وَ ارْقَ فَيَقْرَأُ ثُمَّ يَرْقَى
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood, from Hafs who said,
‘I heard Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws saying to a man: ‘Would you love to remain in the world?’ So he said, ‘Yes’. So he-asws said: ‘And why?’ He said, ‘In order to recite Say He Allah is One [112:1] (Chapter 112)’. So he-asws was silent from him, and said to him after a while: ‘O Hafs! The one from our-asws friends and our-asws Shias who dies and is not good (at reciting) the Quran, would be taught in his grave, in order for Allah-azwj to Raise his status by it, from his (current) level, for the Levels of the Paradise are upon a measurement of the Verses of the Quran. It would be said to him: ‘Recite and ascend’. So he would recite, then he would ascend’.
قَالَ حَفْصٌ فَمَا رَأَيْتُ أَحَداً أَشَدَّ خَوْفاً عَلَى نَفْسِهِ مِنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) وَ لَا أَرْجَى النَّاسِ مِنْهُ وَ كَانَتْ قِرَاءَتُهُ حُزْناً فَإِذَا قَرَأَ فَكَأَنَّهُ يُخَاطِبُ إِنْسَاناً .
Hafs said, ‘So I did not see anyone more intensely fearful upon himself than Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws, nor anyone more hopeful of the people than him-asws, and it was so that his-asws recitation was (full of) grief. So whenever he-asws recited, it was as if he-asws was addressing the people’.[41]
Effect of recitation
ابْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ مِنْهَالٍ الْقَصَّابِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ هُوَ شَابٌّ مُؤْمِنٌ اخْتَلَطَ الْقُرْآنُ بِلَحْمِهِ وَ دَمِهِ وَ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَعَ السَّفَرَةِ الْكِرَامِ الْبَرَرَةِ وَ كَانَ الْقُرْآنُ حَجِيزاً عَنْهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ كُلَّ عَامِلٍ قَدْ أَصَابَ أَجْرَ عَمَلِهِ غَيْرَ عَامِلِي فَبَلِّغْ بِهِ أَكْرَمَ عَطَايَاكَ
Ibn Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from Minhal Al Qassab,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The one who recites the Quran and he is a Momin youth, the Quran would blend with his flesh and his blood, and Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic would Make him to be with the Ambassadors (Mursil Prophets-as), the honourable, the righteous; and it would be so that the Quran would be concerned about him on the Day of Judgment, saying: ‘O Lord-azwj! Every worker has attained a Recompense apart from my worker, therefore let him reach the most prestigious of Your-azwj Gifts’.
قَالَ فَيَكْسُوهُ اللَّهُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ حُلَّتَيْنِ مِنْ حُلَلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ يُوضَعُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ تَاجُ الْكَرَامَةِ ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ هَلْ أَرْضَيْنَاكَ فِيهِ فَيَقُولُ الْقُرْآنُ يَا رَبِّ قَدْ كُنْتُ أَرْغَبُ لَهُ فِيمَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا فَيُعْطَى الْأَمْنَ بِيَمِينِهِ وَ الْخُلْدَ بِيَسَارِهِ
He-asws said: ‘So Allah-azwj the Mighty, the Compeller would Clothe him with two garments of the Paradise and Place a crown of honour upon his head. Then He-azwj would Say to him (The Quran): “Have I pleased you with regards to him?” So the Quran would be saying: ‘O Lord-azwj! I used to wish for him regarding what is superior than this, therefore Grant the (deed of) security in his right hand, and the (deed of) eternal life in his left hand’.
ثُمَّ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ اقْرَأْ وَ اصْعَدْ دَرَجَةً ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ هَلْ بَلَغْنَا بِهِ وَ أَرْضَيْنَاكَ فَيَقُولُ نَعَمْ
Then he would enter the Paradise, so it would be said to him: ‘Recite and ascend a level’. The He-azwj would Say to him: “Have We-azwj Made him reach it and Please you?” So he (the Quran) would be saying: ‘Yes’.
قَالَ وَ مَنْ قَرَأَهُ كَثِيراً وَ تَعَاهَدَهُ بِمَشَقَّةٍ مِنْ شِدَّةِ حِفْظِهِ أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَجْرَ هَذَا مَرَّتَيْنِ .
He-asws said: ‘And the one who recites it a lot and approaches it with laboriousness (difficulty) from the difficulties of memorising it, Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic would Give him the Recompense of this, twice’.[42]
أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُذَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَقْرَأُ آخِرَ الْكَهْفِ إِلَّا تَيَقَّظَ فِي السَّاعَةِ الَّتِي يُرِيدُ .
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al Nahdy, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed, from Aban, from Aamir Bin Abdullah Bin Juza’at,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘There is none from a servant who recites the end of (Surah) Al-Kahf (at sleep time) except he will wake up in the time which he intended to’.[43]
الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ مَيْمُونٍ الْقَدَّاحِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) اقْرَأْ قُلْتُ مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ أَقْرَأُ قَالَ مِنَ السُّورَةِ التَّاسِعَةِ قَالَ فَجَعَلْتُ أَلْتَمِسُهَا فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ مِنْ سُورَةِ يُونُسَ قَالَ فَقَرَأْتُ لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا الْحُسْنى وَ زِيادَةٌ وَ لا يَرْهَقُ وُجُوهَهُمْ قَتَرٌ وَ لا ذِلَّةٌ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِنِّي لَأَعْجَبُ كَيْفَ لَا أَشِيبُ إِذَا قَرَأْتُ الْقُرْآنَ .
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Al Washha, from Aban, from Maymoun Al Qaddah who said,
‘Abu Ja’far-asws said to me: ‘Read!’. I said, ‘From which thing?’ He-asws said: ‘From the ninth Chapter’. So I went on to seek it. So he-asws said: ‘Read from Surah Yunus (Chapter 10). So I recited For those who do good is good and more; neither darkness nor disgrace shall cover their faces [10:26]. He-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘I-saww am astonished how I-saww do not age when I-saww recite the Quran’.[44]
Quality Of Recitation
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَبَلَةَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ وَهْبٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي أَحْفَظُ الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ قَلْبِي فَأَقْرَؤُهُ عَلَى ظَهْرِ قَلْبِي أَفْضَلُ أَوْ أَنْظُرُ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي بَلِ اقْرَأْهُ وَ انْظُرْ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ النَّظَرَ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ عِبَادَةٌ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Yahya Bin Al Mubarak, from Abdullah Bin Jabala, from Muawiya Bin Wahab, from Is’haq Bin Ammar,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I have memorised the Quran by heart, reading it from memory so is it superior or looking into the Parchment (while reciting)?’ So he-asws said to me: ‘But, recite and while looking into the Parchment, for it is superior. Do you not know that the looking into the Parchment is an act of worship?’[45]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُمْهُورٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ مَسْعَدَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قِرَاءَةُ الْقُرْآنِ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ تُخَفِّفُ الْعَذَابَ عَنِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَ لَوْ كَانَا كَافِرَيْنِ .
Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Jamhour, from Muhammad Bin Umar Bin Mas’ada, from Al Hassan Bin Rashid, from his grandfather,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Recitation of the Quran in the Parchment would lighten the Punishment from the parents, and even if they were both disbelievers’.[46]
عَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ حِلْيَةٌ وَ حِلْيَةُ الْقُرْآنِ الصَّوْتُ الْحَسَنُ .
From him, from Ali Bin Ma’bad, from Abdullah Bin Al Qasim, from Abdullah Bin Sinan,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘For everything is an ornament, and an ornament of the Quran is the beautiful voice’.[47]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ عَنْ وَاصِلِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ رَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) بَيِّنْهُ تِبْيَاناً وَ لَا تَهُذَّهُ هَذَّ الشِّعْرِ وَ لَا تَنْثُرْهُ نَثْرَ الرَّمْلِ وَ لَكِنْ أَفْزِعُوا قُلُوبَكُمُ الْقَاسِيَةَ وَ لَا يَكُنْ هَمُّ أَحَدِكُمْ آخِرَ السُّورَةِ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ali Bin Ma’bad, from Wasil Bin Suleyman, from Abdullah Bin Suleyman who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic and recite the Quran as it ought to be recited [73:4]. He-asws said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Pronounce it with clarity and do not bunch it like the bunching of the poem, nor scatter it like the scattering of the grains of sand, but shake-up your hard hearts. Not one of you should be concerned of (reaching to) the end of the Chapter (rushing it)’.[48]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ نَزَلَ بِالْحُزْنِ فَاقْرَءُوهُ بِالْحُزْنِ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from the one who mentioned it,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Quran came down with the grief, therefore recite it with the grief’.[49]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْأَحْمَرِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) اقْرَءُوا الْقُرْآنَ بِأَلْحَانِ الْعَرَبِ وَ أَصْوَاتِهَا وَ إِيَّاكُمْ وَ لُحُونَ أَهْلِ الْفِسْقِ وَ أَهْلِ الْكَبَائِرِ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَجِيءُ مِنْ بَعْدِي أَقْوَامٌ يُرَجِّعُونَ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْجِيعَ الْغِنَاءِ وَ النَّوْحِ وَ الرَّهْبَانِيَّةِ لَا يَجُوزُ تَرَاقِيَهُمْ قُلُوبُهُمْ مَقْلُوبَةٌ وَ قُلُوبُ مَنْ يُعْجِبُهُ شَأْنُهُمْ .
Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ibrahim Al Ahmad, from Abdullah Bin Hammad, from Abdulla Bin Sinan,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Recite the Quran with the tone of the Arabs and their voices; and beware of the immoral people and the people (committing) major sins, for there would be coming a group of people after me-saww, they would be repeating (Verses) of the Quran like the repetition of the songs, and the lamentations, and the monks, not exceeding their throats. Their hearts would be inverted along with the hearts of the ones amazed by their affair’.[50]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّوْفَلِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ ذَكَرْتُ الصَّوْتَ عِنْدَهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) كَانَ يَقْرَأُ فَرُبَّمَا مَرَّ بِهِ الْمَارُّ فَصَعِقَ مِنْ حُسْنِ صَوْتِهِ وَ إِنَّ الْإِمَامَ لَوْ أَظْهَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئاً لَمَا احْتَمَلَهُ النَّاسُ مِنْ حُسْنِهِ
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Hasan Bin Shamoun who said, ‘Ali Bin Muhammad Al Nowfaly narrated to me,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan-asws, said: ‘The (good) voice was mentioned in his-asws presence. So he-asws said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws used to recite. So sometimes a passer-by would pause (in order to listen), and he would shriek from the beauty of his-asws voice, and that the Imam-asws, if he-as were to manifest anything from that, the people would not be able to bear the beauty of his-asws voice’.
قُلْتُ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ وَ يَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) كَانَ يُحَمِّلُ النَّاسَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِ مَا يُطِيقُونَ .
I said, ‘And why didn’t Rasool-Allah-saww raise his-saww voice with the Quran (recitation) when he-saww prayed Salāt with (leading) the people?’ So he-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww used to only load upon the people – following him-saww what they could endure’.[51]
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَمَّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ أَعْرِبِ الْقُرْآنَ فَإِنَّهُ عَرَبِيٌّ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Suleym Al Fara’a, from the one who informed him,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Arabise (articulate in Arabic) the Quran, for it is in Arabic’.[52]
سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ( صلوات الله عليه ) أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ صَوْتاً بِالْقُرْآنِ وَ كَانَ السَّقَّاءُونَ يَمُرُّونَ فَيَقِفُونَ بِبَابِهِ يَسْمَعُونَ قِرَاءَتَهُ وَ كَانَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ صَوْتاً .
Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hajjal, from Ali Bin Uqba, from a man,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws was of the most beautiful of voices of the people with the (recitation of the) Quran, and the water carriers used to pass by his-asws door, and they would be pausing at his-asws door listening to his-asws recitation, and it was so that Abu Ja’far-asws was of the most beautiful of voices of the people’.[53]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ الضَّبِّيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْأَرْمَنِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ قَوْماً إِذَا ذَكَرُوا شَيْئاً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْ حُدِّثُوا بِهِ صَعِقَ أَحَدُهُمْ حَتَّى يُرَى أَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ لَوْ قُطِعَتْ يَدَاهُ أَوْ رِجْلَاهُ لَمْ يَشْعُرْ بِذَلِكَ فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ ذَاكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ مَا بِهَذَا نُعِتُوا إِنَّمَا هُوَ اللِّينُ وَ الرِّقَّةُ وَ الدَّمْعَةُ وَ الْوَجَلُ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Yaqoub Bin Is’haq Al Sabiy, from Abu Imran Al Armany, from Abdullah Bin Al Hakam, from Jabir,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws, said, ‘I said, ‘There is a group of people, when something is mentioned from the Quran or narrated with it, one of them would shriek (scream) to the extent that one of them would view that if his hand or his leg were to be cut off, he would not be aware of that’. So he-asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! That is from the Satan-la, what is attributed with this. But rather, it is the softness and the tenderness, and the tears, and the scruples’. [54]
Non Arab Recitation
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ الْأَعْجَمِيَّ مِنْ أُمَّتِي لَيَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ بِعَجَمِيَّةٍ فَتَرْفَعُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عَلَى عَرَبِيَّةٍ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘The non-Arab man from my-saww community, let him recite the Quran in non-Arab (recitation), and the Angels would Raise it upon Arabic’.[55]
Reciting The Holy Quran With Conviction
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ مَنِ اسْتَكْفَى بِآيَةٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مِنَ الشَّرْقِ إِلَى الْغَرْبِ كُفِيَ إِذَا كَانَ بِيَقِينٍ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Al Husayn Bin Ahmad Al Minqary who said,
‘I heard Abu Ibrahim-asws (7th Imam-asws) saying: ‘The one who suffices with one Verse from the Quran from the east to the west, that would suffice him, when that was with conviction’.[56]
Reciting The Altered (Current) Version
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ قَرَأَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ أَنَا أَسْتَمِعُ حُرُوفاً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَا يَقْرَأُهَا النَّاسُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كُفَّ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْقِرَاءَةِ اقْرَأْ كَمَا يَقْرَأُ النَّاسُ حَتَّى يَقُومَ الْقَائِمُ ( عليه السلام ) فَإِذَا قَامَ الْقَائِمُ ( عليه السلام ) قَرَأَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى حَدِّهِ وَ أَخْرَجَ الْمُصْحَفَ الَّذِي كَتَبَهُ عَلِيٌّ ( عليه السلام )
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Hashim, from Salim Bin Salama who said,
‘A man recited to Abu Abdullah-asws and I was listening, certain phrases from the Quran, not being upon what the people are reading it. So Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Stop from this recitation! Recite it just as the people are reciting it as until the rising of Al-Qaim-asws. So when the Qaim-asws does arise, he-asws would recite the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic upon its limits, and he-asws would bring out the Parchment which Ali-asws had written’.
وَ قَالَ أَخْرَجَهُ عَلِيٌّ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى النَّاسِ حِينَ فَرَغَ مِنْهُ وَ كَتَبَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَذَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ كَمَا أَنْزَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ قَدْ جَمَعْتُهُ مِنَ اللَّوْحَيْنِ فَقَالُوا هُوَ ذَا عِنْدَنَا مُصْحَفٌ جَامِعٌ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ فَقَالَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا تَرَوْنَهُ بَعْدَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا أَبَداً إِنَّمَا كَانَ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أُخْبِرَكُمْ حِينَ جَمَعْتُهُ لِتَقْرَءُوهُ .
And he-asws said: ‘Ali-asws had brought it out when he-asws was free from (compiling) it, and writing it. So he-asws had said: ‘This is the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majesty just as Allah-azwj had Revealed it upon Muhammad-saww’; and he-asws had gathered it from two Tablets. So they said, ‘It is that which is with us, a comprehensive Parchment, in which is the Quran. There is no need for us with regards to it’. So he-asws said: ‘But, by Allah-azwj! You will not be seeing it after this day of yours, ever! But rather, it was upon me-asws that I should inform you all when I-asws had gathered it, in order for you to be reciting it’.[57]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ السِّمْطِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ تَنْزِيلِ الْقُرْآنِ قَالَ اقْرَءُوا كَمَا عُلِّمْتُمْ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abdullah Bin Jundab, from Sufyan Bin Al Simt who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the Revelation of the Quran. He-asws said: ‘Recite it just as you learnt it’. (i.e. – ignore the alterations in the meantime before the rising of Al-Qaim-asws).[58]
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّا نَسْمَعُ الْآيَاتِ فِي الْقُرْآنِ لَيْسَ هِيَ عِنْدَنَا كَمَا نَسْمَعُهَا وَ لَا نُحْسِنُ أَنْ نَقْرَأَهَا كَمَا بَلَغَنَا عَنْكُمْ فَهَلْ نَأْثَمُ فَقَالَ لَا اقْرَءُوا كَمَا تَعَلَّمْتُمْ فَسَيَجِيئُكُمْ مَنْ يُعَلِّمُكُمْ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman, from one of his companions,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan-asws, said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! We tend to hear the Verses in the Quran which are not with us just as we are hearing these to be, nor are we good in reciting it just as it reached us from you-asws. So are we sinning?’ So he-asws said: ‘No. Recite it just as you have learned it, so there would be coming, one (Al-Qaim-asws) who would be teaching you all’.[59]
The Version Recited By The Imam-asws
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ وَ الْمُعَلَّى بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ قَالَا كُنَّا عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَعَنَا رَبِيعَةُ الرَّأْيِ فَذَكَرْنَا فَضْلَ الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنْ كَانَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ لَا يَقْرَأُ عَلَى قِرَاءَتِنَا فَهُوَ ضَالٌّ فَقَالَ رَبِيعَةُ ضَالٌّ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ ضَالٌّ
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abdullah Bin Farqad and Al Moalla Bin Khunays who both said,
‘We were both in the presence of Abu Abdullah-asws and with us was Rabi’e Al-Ra’iy, and we mentioned the merits of the Quran. So Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘If it was so that Ibn Masoud is not reciting upon our-asws recitation, so he has strayed’. So Rabi’e said, ‘Strayed?’ So he-asws said: ‘Yes, strayed’.
ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَمَّا نَحْنُ فَنَقْرَأُ عَلَى قِرَاءَةِ أُبَيٍّ .
Then Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘As for us-asws, so we-asws are reciting it upon the recitation of my-asws father-asws’.[60]
The Extent Of The Alteration Of The Holy Quran
عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ الَّذِي جَاءَ بِهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفَ آيَةٍ .
Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Hisham Bin Salim,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The Quran which Jibraeel-as came with unto Muhammad-saww was of seventeen thousand Verses’.[61]
الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ وَاحِدٌ نَزَلَ مِنْ عِنْدِ وَاحِدٍ وَ لَكِنَّ الِاخْتِلَافَ يَجِيءُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الرُّوَاةِ .
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Jameel Bin Darraj, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, from Zurara,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘The Quran is one, Revealed from the Presence of One-azwj, but the differing comes from the direction of the reporters’.[62]
Types Of Reciters
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ عُبَيْسِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُرَّاءُ الْقُرْآنِ ثَلَاثَةٌ رَجُلٌ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فَاتَّخَذَهُ بِضَاعَةً وَ اسْتَدَرَّ بِهِ الْمُلُوكَ وَ اسْتَطَالَ بِهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ رَجُلٌ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فَحَفِظَ حُرُوفَهُ وَ ضَيَّعَ حُدُودَهُ وَ أَقَامَهُ إِقَامَةَ الْقِدْحِ فَلَا كَثَّرَ اللَّهُ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ الْقُرْآنِ
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Ismail Bin Mihran, from Ubeys Bin Hisham, from the one who mentioned it,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘The reciters of the Quran are of three (types) – A man who recites the Quran, so he takes it as a commodity and attracts the attention of the kings with it, and extend (his control) by it upon the people. And a man who recites the Quran, so he memorises its letters and wastes its limits, and his standing is (like) the standing of the arrow. May Allah-azwj not Cause a lot of these ones to be from the bearers of the Quran.
وَ رَجُلٌ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فَوَضَعَ دَوَاءَ الْقُرْآنِ عَلَى دَاءِ قَلْبِهِ فَأَسْهَرَ بِهِ لَيْلَهُ وَ أَظْمَأَ بِهِ نَهَارَهُ وَ قَامَ بِهِ فِي مَسَاجِدِهِ وَ تَجَافَى بِهِ عَنْ فِرَاشِهِ فَبِأُولَئِكَ يَدْفَعُ اللَّهُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ الْبَلَاءَ وَ بِأُولَئِكَ يُدِيلُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنَ الْأَعْدَاءِ وَ بِأُولَئِكَ يُنَزِّلُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الْغَيْثَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَهَؤُلَاءِ فِي قُرَّاءِ الْقُرْآنِ أَعَزُّ مِنَ الْكِبْرِيتِ الْأَحْمَرِ .
And a man who recites the Quran, so he places the medicine of the Quran upon the illness of his heart. So he holds a vigil with it during his nights and remains thirsty due to it by his day, and he stands by it in his Masjid, and ignores his bed due to it. So it is due to them that Allah-azwj the Mighty, the Compeller Repels the affliction, and it is due to them Allah-azwj Defends from the enemies, and it is due to them that Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sends down the rain from the sky. Thus, by Allah-azwj, these ones among the reciters of the Quran, they are more rarer than the red ruby’.[63]
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ عُبَيْسِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا صَالِحٌ الْقَمَّاطُ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ النَّاسُ أَرْبَعَةٌ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ مَا هُمْ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ أُوتِيَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ رَجُلٌ أُوتِيَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ رَجُلٌ أُوتِيَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ أُوتِيَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ رَجُلٌ لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ لَا الْإِيمَانَ
Abu Ali Al Asjary, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abdullah, from Ubeys Bin Hisham who said, ‘Salih Al Qammat narrated to us, from Aban Bin Taghlub,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘The people are four (types)’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! And what (types) are they?’ So he-asws said: ‘A man Given the Eman and not been Given the Quran; and a man Given the Quran and not been Given the Eman; and a man Given the Quran and Given the Eman; and a man not Given the Quran nor the Eman’.
قَالَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَسِّرْ لِي حَالَهُمْ فَقَالَ أَمَّا الَّذِي أُوتِيَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْقُرْآنَ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ التَّمْرَةِ طَعْمُهَا حُلْوٌ وَ لَا رِيحَ لَهَا وَ أَمَّا الَّذِي أُوتِيَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْإِيمَانَ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْآسِ رِيحُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَ طَعْمُهَا مُرٌّ وَ أَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ الْإِيمَانَ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْأُتْرُجَّةِ رِيحُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَ طَعْمُهَا طَيِّبٌ وَ أَمَّا الَّذِي لَمْ يُؤْتَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ لَا الْقُرْآنَ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْحَنْظَلَةِ طَعْمُهَا مُرٌّ وَ لَا رِيحَ لَهَا.
He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Explain their states to me’. So he-asws said: ‘As for the one Given the Eman and not been Given the Quran, so his example it like an example of the date. Its taste is sweet, but there is no aroma for it. And as for the one Given the Quran and not Given the Eman, so his example is like an example of the myrtle. Its smell is aromatic and its taste is bitter. And as for the one Given the Quran and the Eman, so his example it like an example of the citrus. Its smell is aromatic and its taste is good. And as for the one neither Given the Eman nor the Quran, so his example is like an example of the colocynth, its taste is bitter and there is no (aromatic) smell to it’.[64]
Holy Quran As A Repellant Of Satan-la
عَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الضَّرِيرِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيُعْجِبُنِي أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي الْبَيْتِ مُصْحَفٌ يَطْرُدُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ الشَّيَاطِينَ .
From him, from Ali Bin Al Husayn Bin Al Hassan Al Zareyr, from Hammad Bin Isa,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘I-asws would love it if there happens to be a Parchment in the House by which Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Repels the Satans-la’.[65]
Neglecting The Holy Quran
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ ثَلَاثَةٌ يَشْكُونَ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَسْجِدٌ خَرَابٌ لَا يُصَلِّي فِيهِ أَهْلُهُ وَ عَالِمٌ بَيْنَ جُهَّالٍ وَ مُصْحَفٌ مُعَلَّقٌ قَدْ وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ الْغُبَارُ لَا يُقْرَأُ فِيهِ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Fazzal, from the one who mentioned it,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Three (things) would complain to Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic – a ruined Masjid, it people not praying Salāt in it, and a scholar among the ignorant ones, and a Parchment hanging (somewhere), the dust having occurred upon it, not been recited’.[66]
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يَا مَعَاشِرَ قُرَّاءِ الْقُرْآنِ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِيمَا حَمَّلَكُمْ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ فَإِنِّي مَسْئُولٌ وَ إِنَّكُمْ مَسْئُولُونَ إِنِّي مَسْئُولٌ عَنْ تَبْلِيغِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَتُسْأَلُونَ عَمَّا حُمِّلْتُمْ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ سُنَّتِي .
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Abu Jameela, from Jabir,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O group of reciters of the Quran! Fear Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic regarding what you are bearing from His-azwj Book, for I-saww would be Questioned and you all would be Questioned. I-saww would be Questioned about the delivery of the Message, and as for you, so you would be Questioned about what you bore from the Book of Allah-azwj and my-saww Sunnah’’.[67]
Healing By The Holy Quran
عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ( عليهم السلام ) قَالَ شَكَا رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَجَعاً فِي صَدْرِهِ فَقَالَ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) اسْتَشْفِ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ وَ شِفاءٌ لِما فِي الصُّدُور.
Ali, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws, from his-asws forefathers-asws having said: ‘A man complained to the Prophet-saww of pain in his chest, so he-saww said: ‘Seek healing with the Quran, for Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying and a Healing for what is in the chests’[10:57].[68]
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنِ السَّيَّارِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بِالْحَقِّ وَ أَكْرَمَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِهِ مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ تَطْلُبُونَهُ مِنْ حِرْزٍ مِنْ حَرَقٍ أَوْ غَرَقٍ أَوْ سَرَقٍ أَوْ إِفْلَاتِ دَابَّةٍ مِنْ صَاحِبِهَا أَوْ ضَالَّةٍ أَوْ آبِقٍ إِلَّا وَ هُوَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَمَنْ أَرَادَ ذَلِكَ فَلْيَسْأَلْنِي عَنْهُ
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Abdullah Bin Ja’far, from Al Sayyari, from Muhammad Bin Bakr, from Abu Al Jaroud, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata,
(It has been narrated) from Amir Al-Momineen-asws having said: ‘By the One-azwj Who Sent Muhammad-saww with the Truth, and Honoured the People-asws of his-saww Household, there is nothing you would be seeking from a protective charm (amulet), from burning, or drowning, or theft, or fleeing of an animal from its owner, or straying, or an absconding one (slave), except that it is in the Quran. Therefore, the one who wants that, so let him ask me-asws about it’.
قَالَ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَمَّا يُؤَمِّنُ مِنَ الْحَرَقِ وَ الْغَرَقِ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ اللَّهُ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْكِتابَ وَ هُوَ يَتَوَلَّى الصَّالِحِينَ وَ ما قَدَرُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ سُبْحانَهُ وَ تَعالى عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ فَمَنْ قَرَأَهَا فَقَدْ أَمِنَ الْحَرَقَ وَ الْغَرَقَ
He (the narrator) said, ‘So a man stood up to him-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Inform me about what can secure from the burning, and the drowning?’ So he-asws said: ‘Recite these Verses – Surely, my guardian is Allah, Who Revealed the Book, and He Befriends the righteous [7:196]; And they did not appreciate Allah with the appreciation that is due to Him [39:67] – up to His-azwj Words Glory be to Him, and Exalted is He, above what they are associating. So the one who recites these, so he would be safe from the burning and the drowning.
قَالَ فَقَرَأَهَا رَجُلٌ وَ اضْطَرَمَتِ النَّارُ فِي بُيُوتِ جِيرَانِهِ وَ بَيْتُهُ وَسَطَهَا فَلَمْ يُصِبْهُ شَيْءٌ
He (the narrator) said, ‘So the man recited these, and fire erupted in the houses of his neighbourhood, and his house was in the middle of it, but nothing affected him’.
ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِنَّ دَابَّتِيَ اسْتَصْعَبَتْ عَلَيَّ وَ أَنَا مِنْهَا عَلَى وَجَلٍ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ فِي أُذُنِهَا الْيُمْنَى وَ لَهُ أَسْلَمَ مَنْ فِي السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ طَوْعاً وَ كَرْهاً وَ إِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ فَقَرَأَهَا فَذَلَّتْ لَهُ دَابَّتُهُ
Then another man stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! My animal has become difficult upon me and I am apprehensive from it’. So he-asws said: ‘Recite in its right ear and to Him submits whoever is in the skies and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returning’ [3:83]. So he recited it, and his animal became submissive to him.
وَ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِنَّ أَرْضِي أَرْضٌ مَسْبَعَةٌ وَ إِنَّ السِّبَاعَ تَغْشَى مَنْزِلِي وَ لَا تَجُوزُ حَتَّى تَأْخُذَ فَرِيسَتَهَا فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ لَقَدْ جاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ ما عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَؤُفٌ رَحِيمٌ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَقُلْ حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ لا إِلهَ إِلَّا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ هُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ فَقَرَأَهُمَا الرَّجُلُ فَاجْتَنَبَتْهُ السِّبَاعُ
And another man stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! My land is a land (full of) wild animals, and the animals tend to overwhelm my house and they do not go away until they seize their prey’. So he-asws said: ‘Recite Certainly a Rasool has come to you from among yourselves; It is grievous to him that you should be overburdened, being full of concern for you; to the believers (he is) kind, merciful [9:128] But if they turn back, say: Allah is Sufficient for me, there is no god but He; on Him do I rely, and He is the Lord of the Magnificent Throne’ [9:129]. So the man recited them both, and the predatory wild animals kept away from him’.
ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِنَّ فِي بَطْنِي مَاءً أَصْفَرَ فَهَلْ مِنْ شِفَاءٍ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ بِلَا دِرْهَمٍ وَ لَا دِينَارٍ وَ لَكِنِ اكْتُبْ عَلَى بَطْنِكَ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ تَغْسِلُهَا وَ تَشْرَبُهَا وَ تَجْعَلُهَا ذَخِيرَةً فِي بَطْنِكَ فَتَبْرَأُ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَفَعَلَ الرَّجُلُ فَبَرَأَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ
Then another man stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! In my belly there is yellow water, so is there a cure from it?’ So he-asws said: ‘Yes, without a Dirham nor a Dinar. But write upon your belly Ayat Al-Kursy (2:255), and wash it, and drink it, and make it to be a hoard inside your belly, and you would be cured by the Permission of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic’. So the man did so and he was cured by the Permission of Allah-azwj’.
ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الضَّالَّةِ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ يس فِي رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَ قُلْ يَا هَادِيَ الضَّالَّةِ رُدَّ عَلَيَّ ضَالَّتِي فَفَعَلَ فَرَدَّ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَيْهِ ضَالَّتَهُ
Then another one stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Inform me about the strayed (animal)’. So he-asws said: ‘Recite Ya Seen (Chapter 36) during the two Rukus (in the Salāt), and say, ‘O Guide of the straying one! Return my straying (animal)’. So he did so and Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Returned his straying (animal) back to him.
ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الْآبِقِ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ أَوْ كَظُلُماتٍ فِي بَحْرٍ لُجِّيٍّ يَغْشاهُ مَوْجٌ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ مَوْجٌ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ مَنْ لَمْ يَجْعَلِ اللَّهُ لَهُ نُوراً فَما لَهُ مِنْ نُورٍ فَقَالَهَا الرَّجُلُ فَرَجَعَ إِلَيْهِ الْآبِقُ
Then another one stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Inform me about the absconding one (slave)’. So he-asws said: ‘Recite Or like utter darkness in the sea [24:40] – up to His-azwj Words and to whomsoever Allah does not give Light, he has no Light. So the man said these, and the absconding (slave) returned to him’.
ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ آخَرُ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ السَّرَقِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَزَالُ قَدْ يُسْرَقُ لِيَ الشَّيْءُ بَعْدَ الشَّيْءِ لَيْلًا فَقَالَ لَهُ اقْرَأْ إِذَا أَوَيْتَ إِلَى فِرَاشِكَ قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمنَ أَيًّا ما تَدْعُوا إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ كَبِّرْهُ تَكْبِيراً
Then another stood up to him-asws and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Inform me about the theft, for I have not ceased to be stolen from, something after something, at nights’. So he-asws said to him: ‘Recite whenever you go to your bed Say: Call upon Allah or call upon the Beneficent; whichever (Name) you call upon [17:110] – up to His-azwj Words and exclaim His Greatness with Exclamations ’[17:111].
قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) مَنْ بَاتَ بِأَرْضٍ قَفْرٍ فَقَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ تَبارَكَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعالَمِينَ حَرَسَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ تَبَاعَدَتْ عَنْهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ
Then Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘The one who spends the night in a land of wilderness, so he should recite these Verses Surely, your Lord is Allah, Who Created the skies and the earth in six days, then Established upon the Throne [7:54] – up to His-azwj Words Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the Angels would fortify him and the Satans-la would distance themselves from him’.
ثُمَّ قَالَ فَمَضَى الرَّجُلُ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِقَرْيَةٍ خَرَابٍ فَبَاتَ فِيهَا وَ لَمْ يَقْرَأْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ فَتَغَشَّاهُ الشَّيْطَانُ وَ إِذَا هُوَ آخِذٌ بِخَطْمِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ أَنْظِرْهُ وَ اسْتَيْقَظَ الرَّجُلُ فَقَرَأَ الْآيَةَ فَقَالَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِصَاحِبِهِ أَرْغَمَ اللَّهُ أَنْفَكَ احْرُسْهُ الْآنَ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ رَجَعَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَخْبَرَهُ وَ قَالَ لَهُ رَأَيْتُ فِي كَلَامِكَ الشِّفَاءَ وَ الصِّدْقَ وَ مَضَى بَعْدَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِأَثَرِ شَعْرِ الشَّيْطَانِ مُجْتَمِعاً فِي الْأَرْضِ .
Then (the narrator) said, ‘The man went, and he was in a ruined town, so he spent the night in it and did not recite these Verses. So the Satan-la overcame him and seized him by his face. So his-la companion said to him-la, ‘Look at this’, and the man woke up. So he recited the Verse. So the Satan-la said to his-la companion, ‘May Allah-azwj Rub your nose (Humiliate you). Protect him now, until the morning’. So when it was morning, he returned to Amir Al-Momineen-asws and informed him-asws, and said, to him-asws, ‘I saw the healing and the truthfulness in your-asws speech’. And he went after the emergence of the sun, and there were traces of the hair of the Satan-la, gathered in the ground’.[69]
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ مُحْرِزٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ مَنْ لَمْ يُبْرِئْهُ الْحَمْدُ لَمْ يُبْرِئْهُ شَيْءٌ .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Salma Bin Muhriz who said,
‘I heard Abu Ja’far-asws saying: ‘The one whom (Surah) Al-Hamd (Chapter 1) does not cure, nothing would cure him’.[70]
Divination From The Holy Quran
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ بَعْضِ رِجَالِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَا تَتَفَأَّلْ بِالْقُرْآنِ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from one of his men,
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘You must not (derive) omens (prophecies) from the Quran (Fa’al)’.[71]
The Holy Quran As A Comfort In Loneliness
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْقَاسَانِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) لَوْ مَاتَ مَنْ بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَ الْمَغْرِبِ لَمَا اسْتَوْحَشْتُ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْقُرْآنُ مَعِي وَ كَانَ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا قَرَأَ مالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ يُكَرِّرُهَا حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يَمُوتَ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Ali Bin Muhammad Al Qasany, altogether, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood, from Sufyan Bin Uyayna, from Al Zuhry who said,
‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws said: ‘(Even) if (all) the ones in the east and the west were to die, I-asws would not be lonely if the Quran happens to be with me-asws’. And it was so that whenever he-asws recited Master of the Day of Judgment [1:4] he-asws would keep on repeating it until he-asws would almost be dying’.[72]
Decorative Writing Of The Holy Quran
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَرَّاقِ قَالَ عَرَضْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كِتَاباً فِيهِ قُرْآنٌ مُخَتَّمٌ مُعَشَّرٌ بِالذَّهَبِ وَ كُتِبَ فِي آخِرِهِ سُورَةٌ بِالذَّهَبِ فَأَرَيْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ فَلَمْ يَعِبْ فِيهِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا كِتَابَةَ الْقُرْآنِ بِالذَّهَبِ وَ قَالَ لَا يُعْجِبُنِي أَنْ يُكْتَبَ الْقُرْآنُ إِلَّا بِالسَّوَادِ كَمَا كُتِبَ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Safwan, from Ibn Muskan, from Muhammad Bin Al Warraq who said,
‘There was displayed to Abu Abdullah-asws a Book in wherein was Quran (Verses) sealed by decorations with the gold, and at the end of it was a Chapter written in gold. So he-asws saw it but did not fault anything in it except for the writing of the Quran with gold, and said: ‘I-asws do not like it if the Quran is written except with the black (ink) just as it was written the first time’.[73]
Recognising the Wilayah from the Holy Quran
العياشي: عن ابن مسكان، قال: قال أبو عبدالله (عليه السلام): «من لم يعرف أمرنا من القرآن لم يتنكب الفتن».
Al Ayyashi- From Ibn Muskan who said,
‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘The one who does not recognise our-asws matter (Wilayah) from the Quran, would not be saved from the strife’.[74]
[1] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 14
[2] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 11
[3] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 12
[4] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 6/ 14.
[5] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 8/ 17.
[6] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 5/ 7 و 8.
[7] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 9
[8] Shawahid Al Tanzeel – H 58
[9] الكافي 2: 461/ 13
[10] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 2
[11] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 13/ 3.
[12] Bihar Ul Anwaar – Vol 89 P 74
[13] تأويل الآيات 1: 19/ 2
[14] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 8/ 18.
[15] ربيع الأبرار 2: 80.
[16] الكافي 1: 48/ 1.
[17] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 5
[18] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 6
[19] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 11
[20] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 20
[21] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 13
[22] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 14
[23] الأمالي 2: 367، سنن الدارمي 2: 437، سنن الترمذي 5: 174/ 2908
[24] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 3 H 3
[25] الأمالي 1: 5
[26] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 2
[27] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 4 H 5
[28] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 4 H 2
[29] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 3 H 1
[30] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 6 H 1
[31] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 6 H 2
[32] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 5 H 1
[33] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 11 H 1
[34] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 11 H 2
[35] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 11 H 3
[36] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 7 H 1
[37] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 7 H 6
[38] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 7 H 2
[39] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 7 H 7
[40] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 7
[41] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 10
[42] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 4
[43] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 21
[44] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 19
[45] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 8 H 5
[46] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 8 H 4
[47] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 9
[48] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 1
[49] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 2
[50] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 3
[51] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 4
[52] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 5
[53] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 9 H 11
[54] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 10 H 1
[55] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 12 H 1
[56] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 13 H 18
[57] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 23
[58] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 15
[59] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 12 H 2
[60] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 27
[61] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 28
[62] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 12
[63] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 1
[64] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 6
[65] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 8 H 2
[66] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 8 H 3
[67] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 2 H 9
[68] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 7
[69] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 13 H 21
[70] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 13 H 22
[71] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 7
[72] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 1 H 13
[73] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Merits of the Quran CH 14 H 8
[74] تفسير العيّاشي 1: 13/ 1.