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1345. It was narrated from 'Uthmân bin 'Abdullâh bin Aws that his grandfather Aws bin Hudhaifah said: "We came to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ in the delegation of Thaqif. The allies of Quraish stayed at the house of Mughirah bin Shu'bah, and the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ camped Bani Mâlik in a tent belonging to him. He used to come to us every night after the Ishâ and speak to us standing on his two feet, until he started to shift his weight from one foot to the other. Most of what he told us was what he had suffered from his people Quraish. He said: '(The two sides) were not equal. We were weak and oppressed and humiliated, and when we went out to Al-Madinah, the outcome of the battles between us varied; sometimes we would defeat them and sometimes they would defeat us.' One night he was later than he usually was, and I said: 'O Messenger of Allâh, you have come to us late tonight.' He said: 'It occurred to me that I had not read my daily portion of Qur'an and I did not want to come out until I had completed it.'" Aws said: "I asked the Companions of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ: 'How
did you used to divide up the Qur'ân?' They said: 'A third, a fifth, a seventh, a ninth, an eleventh, a thirteenth, and Hizbul-Mufassal.'"[1] (Da'if)
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We learn from the text, that it is in order to recite the whole of Qur'ân in seven days. Thus the seven portions of the Qur'ân recited over a period of seven days are known as seven Manâzil (portions). The seven Manâzil (after Al-Fâtihah) are as follows:
a) Al-Baqarah; Âl-Imrân; An-Nisâ' (three Surah)
b) From Al-Mâ'idah to At-Tawbah (five Surah)
c) From Yunus to An-Nahl (seven Surah)
d) From Al-Isrâ' to Al-Furqân (nine Surah)
e) From Ash-Shu'arâ' to Yâ-Sin (eleven Surah)
f) From As-Sâffât to Al-Hujurât (thirteen Surah)
g) From Qâf to An-Nâs (sixty-five Surah)
The last Manzil is nicknamed the Mufassal. It is because, lengthwise, these are shorter Surah; therefore the continuity of recitation is frequently broken and a separation (fasl) occurs between each two Surah through Basmalah, the recitation of Bismillah-Rahmânir-Rahim, before the start of each next Surah.
