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2910. Muḥammad bin Ka'b Al-Qurazī said: “I heard ‘Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd saying: ‘The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “[Whoever recites a letter] from Allāh’s Book, then he receives the reward for it, and the reward of ten the like of it. I do not
say that Alif Lām Mīm is a letter, but Alif is a letter, Lām is a letter, and Mīm is a letter.” (Hasan)
[Abū ‘Eisā siad]: This Hadīth is Hasan Saḥīḥ Gharīb from this route. I heard Qutaibah bin Sa‘eed saying: “It has reached me that Muḥammad bin Ka‘b Al-Qurāzī was born during the life of the Prophet ﷺ.” This Hadīth was reported through routes other than this from Ibn Mas‘ūd, it was reported by Abū Al-Aḥwaṣ from ‘Abdullāh bin Mas‘ūd, and some of them reported it in Marfū‘ form, while some of them reported it in Mawqūf form from Ibn Mas‘ūd. Muḥammad bin Ka‘b Al-Qurāzī’s Kunyah is Abū Ḥamzah.
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Commentary
This Hadīth informs that whoever recites the Qur'an out of sincerity, each alphabetic letter will be regarded as one good deed, which is equal to ten good deeds in reward and recompense; and as for the reward of reciting the Qur'an it is not necessary to be recited with the full understanding of its meaning and message, because the Individual Letters (Hurūf Al-Muqatta‘āt) [like: Alif, Lām, Mīm] are recited without an understanding of the meanings. For more related to this, see the Tafsīr of Ibn Kathīr; Sūrat Al-Baqarah.
