When will a person be regarded as from the People of the Qur’a | Ilm4all

When will a person be regarded as from the People of the Qur’aan, the People of Allaah, those closest to Him?!

This had nothing to do with the Qur’aaniyoon (the Hadeeth rejectors), may Allaah save us from their Fitnah.

It was narrated that Anas bin Maalik رضي الله عنه said: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said: ❝Allaah has His own people among mankind.❞ They said: “O Messenger of Allaah, who are they?” He ﷺ said: ❝They are the people of the Qur’aan, Allaah’s own people and those who are closest to Him.❞
[Musnad Ahmad (12279, 12292), Sunan Ibn Maajah (215) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]

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Shaikh Abdul-Salaam al-Shuwaiir said:

A person is considered to be from the people of the Qur’aan when he adheres to these five matters. And more than one scholar has spoken about these five matters.

These five matters, abandoning them leads to harshness (of the heart), and it leads to extremism when one overdoes it by exceeding the limits.

These five matters are:

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1. The first matter: The Recitation

The person should strive to read the Qur’aan and recite it a lot. It will be said to the person on the Day of Judgment, as the Prophet ﷺ had said: ❝The one who was devoted to the Qur’aan will be told: “Recite, ascend, and recite carefully (melodiously) as you used to recite carefully (with Tajweed) when you were in the world, for your rank shall be at the last Aayah you recited.❞
[Sunan Abu Dawood (1464) and Sunan al-Tirmidhee (2914) and graded as “Hassan-Shaheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]

And Abdullaah Ibn Masood رضي الله عنه said: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said: ❝Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allaah, he will be credited with a good deed, and a good deed gets a ten-fold reward. I do not say that Alif Laam Meem is a letter, but Alif is a letter, Laam is a letter and Meem is a letter.❞
[Sunan al-Tirmidhee (2910) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]

And an in regards to the recitation of the Qur’aan, people have fallen into extremism and abandonment. As for extremism, then it is to complete the recitation of the whole Qur’aan in less than three days.

Abdullaah Ibn Amr رضي الله عنهما asked the Prophet ﷺ: “In how many days should I complete the recitation of the whole Qur’aan, O Messenger of Allaah?” He ﷺ replied: ❝In one month.❞ He said: “I am more energetic to complete it in a period less than this.” He ﷺ kept on repeating these words and lessening the period until he ﷺ said: ❝Complete its recitation in seven days.❞ He again said: “I am more energetic to complete it in a period less than this.” The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝He who finishes the recitation of the Qur’aan in less than three days does not understand it.❞
[Sunan Abu Dawood (1390, 1394), Sunan al-Tirmidhee (2949) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. And a longer Hadeeth is found in the Saheehain with a different wording]

As for its abandonment, then the scholars have disliked – with a severe dislike – for the one who has the ability to recite the Qur’aan from memory or by looking at the Mus-haf, that forty days pass by and he does not finish the complete recitation of the Qur’aan.

[TN: Amr Ibn al-Aas said: the Prophet ﷺ said: Recite the Qur’aan in forty days.❞
[Sunan al-Tirmidhee (2947) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]

al-Tirmidhee also mentioned in his Sunan (2946), that Is-haaq Ibn Ibraaheem said: “Because of this Hadeeth, it is disliked that forty days pass by, and a person does not complete the recitation of the Qur’aan”]

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2. The second matter: The Memorization

A person should strive to memorize the Aayaat from the Book of Allaah and gather them in his heart. The more he memorizes, he will have more eagerness to recite the Book of Allaah, and this will in turn help in more memorization (and prevent him from forgetting them).

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3. The third matter: The Articulation