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darimi:1534Muḥammad b. al-Minhāl > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

The Prophet ﷺ said: He who recites the Qur'an in a period less than three days does not understand it. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1394)  

الدارمي:١٥٣٤أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَفْقَهُ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ»  


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Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
abudawud:1394Muḥammad b. al-Minhāl > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Saʿīd > Qatādah > Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr > ʿAbdullāh / Ibn ʿAmr

The Prophet ﷺ said: He who recites the Qur'an in a period less than three days does not understand it.  

أبو داود:١٣٩٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلاَءِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ يَفْقَهُ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثٍ  

tirmidhi:2949Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān > al-Naḍr b. Shumayl > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

that the Prophet ﷺ said: "He who recites the Qur'an in less than three (days), he does not understand it."  

الترمذي:٢٩٤٩حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَمْ يَفْقَهْ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثٍ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ نَحْوَهُ
ibnmajah:1347[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah [Chain 2] Abū Bakr b. Khalāad > Khālid b. al-Ḥārith > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

“No one properly understands who reads the Qur’an in less than three days.”  

ابن ماجة:١٣٤٧حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ خَلاَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَمْ يَفْقَهْ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاَثٍ  

ahmad:6535Wakīʿ > Hammām > Qatādah > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh Iʿan ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

The Prophet ﷺ said: He who recites the Qur'an in a period less than three days does not understand it. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1394)   

أحمد:٦٥٣٥حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنِي هَمَّامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِعَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ لَمْ يَفْقَهْهُ  

ahmad:6810Wakīʿ > Hammām > Qatādah > a man Yazīd or Abū Ayyūb > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

The Prophet ﷺ said: He who recites the Qur'an in a period less than three days does not understand it. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1394)   

أحمد:٦٨١٠حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ يَزِيدَ أَوْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ قَرَأَالْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ لَمْ يَفْقَهْهُ  

ahmad:6841Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

that the Prophet ﷺ said: "He who recites the Qur'an in less than three (days), he does not understand it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2949)   

أحمد:٦٨٤١حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ لَمْ يَفْقَهْهُ  

darimi:2186Muḥammad b. al-Muṣaffá > Muḥammad b. Ḥarb > al-Zubaydī > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah > Abū Qatādah

He who saw me in dream in fact saw the truth (what is true). (Using translation from Muslim 2267a)   

الدارمي:٢١٨٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ عَنْ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَأَى الْحَقَّ»  

darimi:3530ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd > ʿUqbah b. Khālid > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ziyād > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Rāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded me not to recite the Quran in less than three days."  

الدارمي:٣٥٣٠حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ رَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

«أَمَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ لَا أَقْرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ»  

ibnhibban:758Abū Yaʿlá > Muḥammad b. al-Minhāl al-Ḍarīr > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Saʿīd > Qatādah > Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

The Prophet ﷺ said: He who recites the Qur'an in a period less than three days does not understand it. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1394)  

ابن حبّان:٧٥٨أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ الضَّرِيرُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَفْقَهُ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ»  

ذِكْرُ إِثْبَاتِ رُؤْيَةِ الْحَقِّ لِمَنْ رَأَى الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ فِي الْمَنَامِ

ibnhibban:6051al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh al-Qaṭṭān > Hishām b. ʿAmmār > Anas b. ʿIyāḍ > Yūnus b. Yazīd > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah > Abū Hurayrah

He who saw me in dream in fact saw the truth (what is true). (Using translation from Muslim 2267a)   

ابن حبّان:٦٠٥١أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْقَطَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَأَى الْحَقَّ»  

tabarani:18323Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Maymūnah b. Ḥujr > ʿAmmatī Um Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Wāʾil > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Blessed is the one who sees me and the one who sees the one who saw me three times."  

الطبراني:١٨٣٢٣حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَتْنِي مَيْمُونَةُ بِنْتُ حُجْرٍ قَالَتْ حَدَّثَتْنِي عَمَّتِي أُمُّ يَحْيَى بِنْتُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «طُوبَى لِمَنْ رَآنِي وَمَنْ رَأَى مَنْ رَآنِي ثَلَاثًا»  

tabarani:11239[Chain 1] Aḥmad b. Dāwud al-Makkī > Muslim b. Ibrāhīm > al-Ḥārith b. ʿUbayd [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Shuʿayb al-Simsār > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī > Abū Maʿshar al-Barāʾ [Chain 3] ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Naṣr b. ʿAlī > Hārūn b. Muslim > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Akhnas > Ibn Abū Mulaykah > Ibn ʿAbbās

(The narrator Qutaibah said: This tradition has been narrated by Sa'id b. Abu Sa'id in my collection): The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: He who does not chant the Qur'an is not one of us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1469)  

الطبراني:١١٢٣٩حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْمَكِّيُّ ثنا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثنا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ السِّمْسَارُ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ ثنا أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ الْبَرَاءُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ ثنا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثنا هَارُونُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْأَخْنَسِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ لَمْ يَتَغَنَّ بِالْقُرْآنِ»  

tabarani:8701Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] "Whoever recites the Quran in less than three (days), he is (a) hurried."  

الطبراني:٨٧٠١حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

«مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَهُوَ رَاجِزٌ»  

tabarani:8702ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū Nuʿaym > Shuʿbah > ʿAlī b. Badhīmah > Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh from his father

[Machine] "Whoever recites the Quran in less than three (days), he is faltering."  

الطبراني:٨٧٠٢حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَذِيمَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَهُوَ رَاجِزٌ»  

tabarani:8703ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū Nuʿaym > Misʿar > ʿAlī b. Badhīmah > Abū ʿUbaydah > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "Whoever reads the Quran in less than three days is a careless person."  

الطبراني:٨٧٠٣حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا مِسْعَرٌ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَذِيمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

«مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَهُوَ رَاجِزٌ»  

tabarani:8705Muḥammad b. al-Naḍr al-Azdī > Muʿāwiyah b. ʿAmr > Zāʾidah > Hishām > al-Ḥasan > Balaghah > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] "Whoever recites the Quran in less than three days is negligent."  

الطبراني:٨٧٠٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ النَّضْرِ الْأَزْدِيُّ ثنا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو ثنا زَائِدَةُ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

«مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَهُوَ رَاجِزٌ»  

tabarani:1672Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Muʾaddib And al-Ḥasan b. al-Mutawakkil al-Baghdādī > Surayj b. al-Nuʿmān > Suhayl b. Abū Ḥazm > Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī > Jundub

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever says (something) about the Qur'an according to his own opinion and he is correct, yet he has committed a mistake." This Hadith is Gharib. Some of the people of Hadith have criticized Suhail bin Abi Hazm. [Imam At-Tirmidhi said:] This is how it has been reported from some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and others. They were very stern about this - about explaining the Qur'an without knowledge. As for what has been related from Mujãhid, Qatadah and others, among the people of knowledge, that they would interpret the Qur'an, then it should not be thought about them that they would say something about the Qur'an, or interpret it without knowledge, or according to their own intellect. Rather that which proves what we have said has been reported from them, that they would not say something from themselves without knowledge. Husain bin Mahdi Al-Basri narrated to us (he said: AbdurRazzaq narrated to us, from Ma'mar, from Qatadah who said): "There is no Ayah in the Qur'an except that I have heard something about it." Ibn Abi 'Umar narrated to us (he said): "Sufyan bin 'Uyainah narrated to us, from Al-A'mash who said: 'Mujãhid said: If you recited the recitation of Ibn Mas'ud, you would not need to ask Ibn 'Abbãs about much of what you ask him regarding the Qur'an." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2952)  

الطبراني:١٦٧٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الْمُؤَدِّبُ وَالْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ قَالَا ثنا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ ثنا سُهَيْلُ بْنُ أَبِي حَزْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيُّ عَنْ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ قَالَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ بِرَأْيِهِ فَأَصَابَ فَقَدْ أَخْطَأَ»  

nasai-kubra:8013Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Khālid > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

“No one properly understands who reads the Qur’an in less than three days.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1347)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٨٠١٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَمْ يَفْقَهْ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أَقَلِّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ»  

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السيوطي:٢٦٣٩١a

"لا يَفْقَهُ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي أقَلَّ مِنْ ثَلاثٍ".  

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