300 hadith
We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ compiling the Quran from parchments.
الأعظمي 11788SahihI asked Anas bin Malik [[r1]], "Who compiled the Quran during the time of the Prophet ﷺ?" He replied, "Four men, all of them from the Ansar: Ubayy bin Kaab, Muaz bin Jabal, Zayd bin Thabit, and Abu Zayd." Fadl followed him in this…
البخاري 5003SahihThe Prophet ﷺ said, "Let me not find any of you reclining on his couch when news of a hadith from me reaches him, and he says, 'Recite to me the Quran instead.' Whatever good word has been spoken, I have said it."
ابن ماجه 21DaifAbu Hurairah said, "Recitation is performed in every prayer. What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited aloud for us, we recite aloud for you, and what he recited silently, we recite silently for you." A man said to him, "What if I do not recite…
مسلم 883SahihThe Prophet ﷺ said, "Recitation was made easy for Dawud. He would order his mount to be saddled, and he would finish reciting it before the saddling was complete," meaning the Quran.
الأعظمي 12658SahihThe Prophet ﷺ entered the mosque and found a group of people reciting the Quran. He said, "Recite the Quran and seek Allah [[r4]] through it before a people come who will straighten it as an arrow is straightened, seeking its reward in this…
أحمد 14855SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Let me not find any of you reclining on his couch when a hadith of mine reaches him, saying, 'Recite to me a passage of the Quran instead.' Whatever good comes to you from me, whether I actually said it or…
أحمد 8801DaifShe had memorized the entire Quran, and the Prophet ﷺ had instructed her to lead the people of her household in prayer. She had a muezzin, and she would lead the people of her household in prayer.
أحمد 27283DaifThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I spent the night reciting the Quran to a group of jinn at al-Hajun."
أحمد 3954DaifThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us the Quran in every state, so long as he was not in a state of major ritual impurity.
الترمذي 146HasanHe said, "I prayed, and the Messenger of Allah led us in prayer. He recited *'Qaf. By the glorious Quran'* [Qaf 50:1] until he recited *'And the towering palm trees'* [Qaf 50:10]." He said, "I kept repeating it to myself, but I did not know…
الأعظمي 13375SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us the Quran as long as he was not in a state of major ritual impurity.
أحمد 1123HasanThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Al-Baqarah is the peak and summit of the Quran. Eighty angels descended with every verse of it, and *'There is no god but He, the Living, the Self-Sustaining'* [Baqarah 2:255] was drawn out from beneath the…
أحمد 20300DaifThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us the Quran as long as he was not in a state of major ritual impurity.
أحمد 627HasanThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited the Quran after relieving himself, before touching water. Sometimes Israil narrated it from a man, from Ali [[r1]], from the Prophet ﷺ.
أحمد 686DaifI prayed, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in prayer, and he recited, *"Qaf. By the glorious Quran"* [Qaf 50:1], until he reached, *"and the towering palm trees"* [Qaf 50:10].
الأعظمي 1990SahihHe asked me, "In how many days do you complete the Quran?" I replied, "I do not divide it into set portions." Nafi said to me, "Do not say, 'I do not divide it into portions,' for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'I have read a portion of the…
أبو داود 1392DaifHe said, "In every prayer there is recitation. Whatever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited aloud to us, we recite aloud to you, and whatever he recited silently, we recite silently to you. If you do not add anything beyond the Mother of the…
الأعظمي 1975SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "He is not one of us who does not chant the Quran melodiously."
الأعظمي 11797SahihWhenever the Quran was being revealed to the Prophet ﷺ, he would hasten to recite it in order to memorize it. So Allah [[r4]] revealed *"Do not move your tongue with it"* up to His words *"its collection and its recitation are upon Us"*…
الأعظمي 13646SahihIt was narrated from the Prophet ﷺ with a meaning similar to the hadith of Malik. In the hadith of Musa bin Uqba, there is an addition, "When the keeper of the Quran rises and recites it by night and by day, he remembers it, but if he does…
مسلم 1840SahihIn every prayer there is recitation. What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited aloud for us, we recite aloud for you, and what he recited silently to us, we recite silently for you. If you do not add anything beyond the Mother of the Quran, it…
البخاري 772SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Take the Quran from four people, from Ibn Masud, Ubayy bin Kaab, Muaz bin Jabal, and Salim the freed slave of Abu Huzaifa." He said, this is a hasan sahih hadith.
الترمذي 3810SahihWhen the Prophet ﷺ finished reciting the Mother of the Quran, he would raise his voice and say, "Ameen."
الأعظمي 1983HasanHe prayed behind the Prophet ﷺ and heard him recite during the Fajr prayer *"Qaf. By the glorious Quran"* [Qaf 50:1] and *"Ya Sin. By the wise Quran"* [Ya-Sin 36:1–2].
أحمد 16396SahihA man entered the mosque, and the narrator mentioned his story. The Prophet ﷺ said to him, "When you stand and face the qiblah, say the takbir. Then recite the Mother of the Quran and whatever else Allah wills for you to recite..."
الأعظمي 1970HasanThe Prophet ﷺ spent an entire night standing in prayer reciting a single verse of the Quran.
الترمذي 448SahihThere were some young men in Madinah who were called the reciters, and he then mentioned the same meaning.
أحمد 13463SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "He is not one of us who does not chant the Quran melodiously." Another narrator added, "reciting it aloud."
البخاري 7527DifficultHe prayed behind the Prophet ﷺ and said, "I heard him reciting in the Fajr prayer, *'Qaf. By the glorious Quran'* [Qaf 50:1], and *'Ya Sin. By the wise Quran'* [Yasin 36:1–2]."
الأعظمي 1994HasanThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us one day while we were reciting the Quran and said, "Praise be to Allah. The Book of Allah is one, and among you are the red, among you are the white, and among you are the black. Recite it before…
أبو داود 831DaifI do not know that the Prophet of Allah ﷺ ever recited the entire Quran in a single night until morning.
ابن ماجه 1348SahihI said, "Mother of the Believers, tell me about the character of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." She replied, "Do you not recite the Quran?" I said, "Yes." She said, "The character of the Prophet of Allah was the Quran." The hadith.
الأعظمي 13600SahihSomeone who saw the Prophet ﷺ told me that he urinated, then recited something from the Quran. Hushaym once said, "some verses from the Quran," before touching any water.
أحمد 18074DifficultI was walking with Imran bin Husayn, each of us holding the other's hand, when we passed by a beggar who was reciting the Quran. Imran stopped me and said, "Wait, let us listen to the Quran." When the man finished, he began asking for…
أحمد 19917HasanSulayman, with part of the hadith from Amr bin Mura, reported that his father told him, from Abu Duha, from Abdullah, who said, The Prophet ﷺ said to me, "Recite the Quran to me." I said, "Shall I recite it to you when it was revealed to…
أحمد 3606SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Allah has not listened to anything as He listens to a Prophet ﷺ reciting the Quran melodiously." His companion added, meaning that he recites it aloud.
البخاري 7482SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite the Quran in every state except when in a state of major ritual impurity.
النسائي 267SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Recite the Quran to me." I said, "Messenger of Allah, how can I recite it to you when it was revealed to you?" He replied, "I would love to hear it from someone other than myself." So I began with Surah…
أحمد 4118SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say during the prostrations of the Quran at night, "My face has prostrated to the One who created it and brought forth its hearing and sight by His power and strength."
الأعظمي 3023SahihWe were with Abdullah bin Umar when we mentioned a hadith from Abdullah bin Masud. He said, "I will never cease to love that man after something I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I heard him say, 'Learn the Quran from four men, from…
مسلم 6335SahihImran bin Husayn passed by a man who was telling stories to an audience for payment. Imran said, "We belong to Allah, and to Him we shall return. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Recite the Quran and ask Allah [[r5]] through it,…
أحمد 19997DifficultThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard a man reciting *"Say, He is Allah, the One"* [Ikhlas 112:1] until he completed the surah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "It has become obligatory." Someone asked, "Messenger of Allah, what has become…
أحمد 10919SahihThe Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah has not listened to anything as He listens to a Prophet reciting the Quran melodiously." In another wording, "Allah has not listened to anything as He listens to a Prophet with a beautiful voice reciting the Quran…
الأعظمي 11794SahihOn the day of the conquest of Makkah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, while mounted on his she-camel, recited Surah al-Fath. Abu Iyas then recited it himself with the same melodious tone and said, "Were it not that people would crowd around me, I…
أحمد 20558SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to Ubayy bin Kaab while he was praying and called, "Ubayy!" Ubayy turned toward him but did not answer. He shortened his prayer and then went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "Peace be upon you,…
الترمذي 2875SahihThe Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah [[r4]] has not listened to anything as He listens to a prophet reciting the Quran melodiously."
النسائي 1019SahihI came to Madinah during the caliphate of Abu Bakr Siddiq, and I prayed Maghrib behind him. In the first two units he recited the Mother of the Quran and a surah from the short surahs of the Mufassal. Then he stood for the third unit, and I…
مالك 178SahihThe Prophet ﷺ said, "Recitation was made easy for Dawud. He would order his mount to be saddled, and he would finish reciting (meaning the Quran) before it was saddled."
البخاري 4713SahihI traveled to Sham with a group of Abdullah's companions. When Abu Darda heard of our arrival, he came to us and asked, "Is there anyone among you who recites the Quran?" We said, "Yes." He asked, "Which of you recites best?" They pointed…
البخاري 4943SahihI heard my uncle say, "I prayed the dawn prayer with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and in one of the two units he recited, *'And the tall palm trees with layered fruit-stalks'*." Shuba said, I met him later in the market, in the crowd, and he…
النسائي 951SahihHe was one of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. He said, "A man came while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in the mosque." He then mentioned the hadith about the man praying poorly, followed by the Prophet's ﷺ instruction to him, in which he…
الأعظمي 1978HasanThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "He is not one of us who does not chant the Quran melodiously."
الأعظمي 11798HasanThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Beautify the Quran with your voices."
الأعظمي 11795SahihHe attributed it to the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "Allah has not listened to anything as He listens to a prophet reciting the Quran melodiously."
مسلم 1845SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Recite the Quran to me." I said, "Messenger of Allah, shall I recite it to you when it was revealed to you?" He replied, "I would love to hear it from someone else." So I recited Surah an-Nisa, and when…
مسلم 1867SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Take the Quran from four people, from Ibn Umm Abd," beginning with him, "and from Muaz bin Jabal, Ubayy bin Kaab, and Salim the freed slave of Abu Huzaifa."
أحمد 6790SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Recite the Quran to me." I said, "Shall I recite it to you, when it was revealed to you?" He said, "I love to hear it from someone else." So I recited Surah Nisa, and when I reached "*So how will it be…
الأعظمي 11800SahihThe Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Recite the Quran to me." I said, "Shall I recite it to you, when it was revealed to you?" He said, "I love to hear it from someone else." So I recited Surah Nisa, and when I reached "*So how will it be…
الأعظمي 9584SahihI memorized Surah Qaf, *"By the Glorious Quran"* [Qaf 50:1], directly from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as he was reciting it on the pulpit on Fridays.
النسائي 1412Sahih