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Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 755

وَعَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ : لَقَدْ عِشْتُ بُرْهَةً مِنْ دَهْرٍ وَإِنَّ أَحَدَنَا يُؤْتَى الْإِيمَانَ قَبْلَ الْقُرْآنِ ، وَتَنْزِلُ السُّورَةُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَيَتَعَلَّمُ حَلَالَهَا وَحَرَامَهَا وَمَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَقِفَ عِنْدَهُ مِنْهَا كَمَا تَعَلَّمُونَ أَنْتُمُ الْقُرْآنَ ، ثُمَّ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رِجَالًا يُؤْتَى أَحَدُهُمُ الْقُرْآنَ قَبْلَ الْإِيمَانِ ، فَيَقْرَأُ مَا بَيْنَ فَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ إِلَى خَاتِمَتِهِ مَا يَدْرِي مَا آمِرُهُ وَلَا زَاجِرُهُ ، وَمَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَقِفَ عِنْدَهُ [ مِنْهُ ] ، وَيَنْثُرَهُ نَثْرَ الدَّقَلِ .
رَوَاهُ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ فِي الْأَوْسَطِ ، وَرِجَالُهُ رِجَالُ الصَّحِيحِ .
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I lived for a period of time in which one of us would be given faith before the Qur'an. When a surah was revealed to Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), that person would learn its lawful and its unlawful, and also what he ought to pause at in it, just as you (in this age) learn the Qur'an. Then I saw people who were given the Qur'an before faith. They recite the whole of it from Surah al-Fatihah to the end of the Qur'an, yet they do not know what it commands them and what it forbids them, nor what they ought to pause at in it. Such a person rattles through it quickly, the way poor-quality dates are scattered.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Reference مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب العلم / 755
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