In How Many Days Should The Qur'an Be Recited?
Darussalam · Volume 2
6. (The Book Of The Chapters Pertaining To The Month Of Ramaḍān)Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 1391 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 55
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1391. It was reported from Khaithamah, from 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr, who said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to me: 'Recite the Qur'ān in one month.' So I said: 'But I find myself (more) energetic!' So he said: 'Recite it in three (days).'" (Ṣaḥīḥ) Abū 'Ali said: I heard Abū Dāwūd saying: 'I heard Aḥmad — meaning Ibn Ḥanbal — saying: "'Eisā bin Shādhān is astute (Kaiyṣun).'"[2]
1391 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْقَطَّانُ، خَالُ عِيسَى بْنِ شَاذَانَ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَرِيشُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اقْرَأِ الْقُرْآنَ فِي شَهْرٍ»، قَالَ: إِنَّ بِي قُوَّةً، قَالَ: «اقْرَأْهُ فِي ثَلَاثٍ»، قَالَ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ: سَمِعْت أَبَا دَاوُد، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَحْمَدَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ حَنْبَلٍ، يَقُولُ: عِيسَى بْنُ شَاذَانَ كَيِّسٌ
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[1] That is, Muḥammad bin Al-Muthanna, from whom Abū Dāwūd heard the narration. And the meaning of "this statement" is: "I am capable of more than that."
[2] That is, one of the narrators, and it is an endorsing description, and Abū 'Ali is Al-Lu'lu'i who heard this text from Abū Dāwūd.
In the light of these Hadiths, reciting the whole of the Qur'an in a single night is disliked.