This tradition has also been transmitted by Saad (b. Abi Waqqas) from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم in a similar manner through a different chain of narrators.
Read More..Narrated AbuLubabah: Ubaydullah ibn Yazid said: AbuLubabah passed by us and we followed him till he entered his house, and we also entered it. There was a man in a rusty house and in shabby condition. I heard him say: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: He is not one of us who does not chant the Quran. I (the narrator AbdulJabbar) said to Ibn Abu Mulaykah: Abu Muhammad, what do you think if a person does not have pleasant voice? He said: He should recite with pleasant voice as much as possible.
Read More..Waki and Ibn Uyainah said (explaining the meaning of taghanni): This means that the Quran makes a man neglect all other things, and be content with it.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Allah has not listened to anything as He does to a Prophet chanting the Quran with a loud voice.
Read More..Narrated Saad ibn Ubadah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: No man recites the Quran, then forgets it, but will meet Allah on the Day of Judgment in a maimed condition (or empty-handed, or with no excuse).
Read More..Umar bin al-Khattab said: I heard Hisham bin Hakim (b. Hizam) reciting Surah al-Furqan in a different manner from my way of reciting, and the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم had taught me to recite it. I nearly spoke sharply to him, but I delayed till he had finished. Then I caught his cloak at the neck, and I brought him to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. I said: Messenger of Allah, I heard this man reciting Surah al-Furqan in a manner different from that in which you taught me to recite it. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم the told him to recite it. He then recited in the manner I heard him recite. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Thus was it sent down. He then said to me: Recite, I recited (it). He then said: Thus was it sent down. He said: The Quran was sent down in seven modes of reading, so recite according to what comes most easily.
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