Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 11679

In one narration the words are: In the morning people would come to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) at his house, and he would say: Stay where you are! Then he would pass by those whom he taught the Qur'an and say: O so-and-so! Which surah are you on? The man would tell him, and he would ask: Which verse are you on? Then he would teach him the verse that follows it and say: Learn it! For it is better for you than everything between the heavens and the earth. The narrator says: The man would think that perhaps there is no verse in the Qur'an better than that one. Then he would pass by the next person and say the same thing to him, until he had said the same to all of them. Imam al-Tabarani recorded all these narrations, and the narrators of all of them are thiqat (trustworthy), except that the wording of one narration is: that it is reported by Abu Ubaydah from his father, and Abu Ubaydah did not hear from his father.