Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran · The Reward for Reading the Holy Quran · Volume 2, book 3, chapter 7, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله ابْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ قَائِماً فِي صَلاتِهِ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ مِائَةَ حَسَنَةٍ وَمَنْ قَرَأَهُ فِي صَلاتِهِ جَالِساً كَتَبَ الله لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ خَمْسِينَ حَسَنَةً وَمَنْ قَرَأَهُ فِي غَيْرِ صَلاتِهِ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ عَنْ مُعَاذٍ عَلَى نَحْوٍ مِمَّا رَوَاهُ ابْنُ سِنَانٍ.

Published English translation

1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father all from ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan from Mu’adh ibn Muslim from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sulayman from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “If one reads the Holy Quran in prayer standing Allah will write down for him the reward for one hundred good deeds for each letter. If one reads the Holy Quran in prayer sitting Allah will write down for him the reward for fifty good deeds for each letter and if one reads without being in prayer, Allah will write for him the reward for ten good deeds for each letter.’” Ibn Mahbub has said, “I have heard this Hadith from Mu’adh the way ibn Sinan has narrated.”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/495)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 155

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