Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d: A lady came to Allah's Apostle and said, O Allah's Apostle! I have come to you to offer myself to you. He raised his eyes and looked at her and then lowered his head. When the lady saw that he did not make any decision, she sat down. On that, a man from his companions got up and said. O Allah's Apostle! If you are not in need of this woman, then marry her to me. Allah's Apostle said, Do you have anything to offer her? He replied. No, by Allah, O Allah's Apostle! The Prophet said to him, Go to your family and see if you can find something.' The man went and returned, saying, No, by Allah, O Allah's Apostle! I have not found anything. The Prophet said, Try to find something, even if it is an iron ring.'' He went again and returned, saying, No, by Allah, O Allah's Apostle, not even an iron ring, but I have this waist sheet of mine. The man had no upper garment, so he intended to give her, half his waist sheet. So Allah's Apostle said, ''What would she do with your waist sheet? If you wear it, she will have nothing of it over her body, and if she wears it, you will have nothing over your body. So that man sat for a long period and then got up, and Allah's Apostle saw him going away, so he ordered somebody to call him. When he came, the Prophet asked him, How much of the Qur'an do you know? He replied, I know such Surat and such Surat and such Surat, and went on counting it, The Prophet asked him, Can you recite it by heart? he replied, Yes. The Prophet said, Go, I have married this lady to you for the amount of the Qur'an you know by heart.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar: Allah's Apostle said, The example of the person who knows the Qur'an by heart is like the owner of tied camels. If he keeps them tied, he will control them, but if he releases them, they will run away.
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah: I heard the Prophet saying... (as above, no. 550).
Read More..Narrated Abu Musa: The Prophet said, Keep on reciting the Qur'an, for, by Him in Whose Hand my life is, Qur'an runs away (is forgotten) faster than camels that are released from their tying ropes.
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah bin Mughaffal: I saw Allah's Apostle reciting Surat-al-Fath on his she-camel on the day of the Conquest of Mecca.
Read More..Narrated Sa`id bin Jubair: Those Suras which you people call the Mufassal, are the Muhkam. And Ibn `Abbas said, Allah's Apostle died when I was a boy of ten years, and I had learnt the Muhkam (of the Qur'an).
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