Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran · The Houses Wherein the Holy Quran is Read · Volume 2, book 3, chapter 6, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ وَالْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأعْلَى مَوْلَى آلِ سَامٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِنَّ الْبَيْتَ إِذَا كَانَ فِيهِ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ يَتْلُو الْقُرْآنَ يَتَرَاءَاهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ كَمَا يَتَرَاءَى أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا الْكَوْكَبَ الدُّرِّيَّ فِي السَّمَاءِ.

Published English translation

2. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Muhammad ibn Khalid and al-Husayn ibn Sa’id all from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Yahya ibn ‘Imran al-Halabi from ‘Abd al-‘Ala’ Mawla ‘Ale (family) S’am from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “A house wherein a Muslim reads the Holy Quran is looked upon by the inhabitants of heavens, just as the inhabitants of earth like to look at a shining star in the skies.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن أو مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/494)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 155

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