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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:1747 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb > Khālid b. Dīnār > Abū al-ʿĀliyah

[Machine] "A man should learn the Quran and then sleep until he forgets it."

الزهد لأحمد:١٧٤٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ أَنْبَأَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ «كُنَّا نَعُدُّ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الذُّنُوبِ

أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الرَّجُلُ الْقُرْآنَ ثُمَّ يَنَامَ عَنْهُ حَتَّى يَنْسَاهُ»

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ahmad-zuhd:1746 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > ʿAbd al-Ṣamad > Abū Khaldah > Abū al-ʿĀliyah

[Machine] "That the man learns the Quran and then sleeps without reciting anything from it."

الزهد لأحمد:١٧٤٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَلْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ «كُنَّا نَعُدُّ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الذَّنْبِ

أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الرَّجُلُ الْقُرْآنَ ثُمَّ يَنَامَ لَا يَقْرَأُ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا»