Surah al-Ikhlas, reports on its virtue and the virtues joined with it

Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports as a marfu' hadith: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Al-Samad refers to the Being who has no belly."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Salih bin Hibban, who is da'if (weak).

Al-Dahhak bin Muzahim narrates: Nafi' bin al-Azraq asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) about this statement of Allah Almighty: "al-Samad". He said: As for the word "Ahad", we know it; what is meant by "Samad"? Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The One to whom recourse is made in all matters. He asked: Did the Arabs know this meaning before the Book was revealed to Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)? Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) replied: Yes! Have you not heard this verse of al-Asadiyyah: "Lo! The herald of death should bring Banu Asad the news of Amr bin Mas'ud, who was a chief and the one to whom recourse was made." Nafi' said: You have spoken the truth.
Al-Tabarani recorded it within a long hadith, which has already appeared under "How is the Qur'an to be interpreted?"; its chain contains Juwaybir, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a man who was reciting Surah al-Ikhlas. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He has made (Paradise) obligatory (for himself), (the narrator is unsure; perhaps the words are:) Paradise has become obligatory for him.
Ahmad and al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Ali bin Yazid, who is da'if (weak).

An elder who lived in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) narrates: I set out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a man who was reciting Surah al-Kafirun. He said: As for this man, he has become free of polytheism. Another man was reciting Surah al-Ikhlas, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Because of it, Paradise has become obligatory for this man.

In one narration the words are: "As for this man, he has been forgiven."
Ahmad recorded it with two chains; one of them contains Sharik, about whom there is disagreement; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas ten times, Allah Almighty will build a house for him in Paradise." Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! In that case we will (have) many (houses built). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty (in His grace) is far greater and purer.
Al-Tabarani and Ahmad recorded it. He said: It is reported from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Mu'adh bin Anas al-Juhani (may Allah be pleased with him), the Companion of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); he did not say that it is reported from his father, and it appears that these words have dropped out. The chains of both narrations contain Rishdin bin Sa'd and Zabban; both of them are da'if (weak), and both have been given a weak authentication.

Sayyiduna Ibn al-Daylami (may Allah be pleased with him), the nephew of the Negus, who served the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas one hundred times, in prayer or outside of prayer, Allah Almighty will record for him freedom from Hell."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Muhammad bin Qudamah al-Jawhari, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas ten times, a palace will be built for him in Paradise; whoever recites it twenty times, two palaces will be built for him; and whoever recites it thirty times, three palaces will be built for him."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Hani' bin al-Mutawakkil, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Shikhkhir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas during the illness in which he dies will not be put to trial in his grave and will be safe from the squeezing of the grave; and on the Day of Resurrection the angels will carry him on their palms until they take him across the Sirat and bring him to Paradise."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat and said: It is narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) only with this chain. Its chain contains Nasr bin Hammad al-Warraq, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas twelve times after the Fajr prayer, it is as though he has recited the Qur'an four times, and on that day he will be the most excellent of the people of the earth, provided he adopts piety (or: he keeps away from sins)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir; its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas, it is as though he has recited one third of the Qur'an; and whoever recites Surah al-Kafirun, it is as though he has recited one quarter of the Qur'an."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir, and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas fifty times every day, on the Day of Resurrection it will be announced at his grave: O you who praised Allah! Rise and enter Paradise."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat from his teacher Ya'qub bin Ishaq bin al-Zubayr al-Halabi, and I do not know him; the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The people said: O Messenger of Allah! Describe the lineage of your Lord to us. Then this surah was revealed: "Say: He is Allah, the One", to the end of the surah.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and
Abu Ya'la also recorded it, except that he reported these words: A Bedouin came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: Describe the lineage of Allah. Its chain contains Mujalid bin Sa'id; Ibn Adi said: He has narrated reports from al-Sha'bi from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him). The rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Everything has a lineage (nisbah), and the lineage of Allah is Surah al-Ikhlas."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its chain contains al-Wazi' bin Nafi', who is matruk (abandoned).

Hamzah bin Yusuf bin Abdullah bin Salam narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him) said to the scholars of the Jews: I have taken a covenant in the mosque of our forefathers Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him) and Sayyiduna Isma'il (peace be upon him). Then he set out towards the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who was in Makkah at the time. He arrived there when the people were returning from Hajj. He found the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at Mina with people around him, and he stood with the people. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at him, he said: Are you Abdullah bin Salam? The narrator says: I said: Yes! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Come near! So I came near. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I ask you by Allah, O Abdullah bin Salam! Have you not found me in the Torah as the Messenger of Allah? I said to him: Describe the attributes of our Lord to us! The narrator says: Then Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) came and stood before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and recited these verses: "Say: He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Self-Sufficient; He has not begotten anyone, nor was He begotten, nor is there anyone equal to Him." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this surah to us, and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah Almighty, and that you are the Messenger of Allah. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Then the narrator mentioned the full hadith, which will come in full later in the chapter on the virtues of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), except that Hamzah did not live in the time of his grandfather Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him).

Salamah bin Wardan narrates: Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), the Companion of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated this hadith to Salamah: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked a man from among his Companions, saying: O so-and-so! Have you married? He replied: No! I do not have enough with which I could marry. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Do you not know Surah al-Ikhlas? He replied: Yes, I do! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is one quarter of the Qur'an. Then he asked: Do you not know Surah al-Kafirun? He replied: Yes, I do! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is one quarter of the Qur'an. Then he asked: Do you not know Surah al-Zalzalah? He replied: Yes, I do! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is one quarter of the Qur'an. Then he asked: Do you not know Surah al-Nasr? He replied: Yes, I do! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is one quarter of the Qur'an. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Do you not know Ayat al-Kursi? He replied: Yes, I do! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is one quarter of the Qur'an. Get married, get married, get married (that is, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this three times). (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
Al-Tirmidhi recorded it in abridged form, only without Ayat al-Kursi, and reported that Surah al-Ikhlas is one quarter of the Qur'an.
Ahmad recorded it, and the narrator Salamah is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) was present in a gathering and was saying: Are we not able to recite one third of the Qur'an every night? The people said: Are we able to do that? He said: Surah al-Ikhlas is one third of the Qur'an. The narrator says: Meanwhile the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was listening to what Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) was saying. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Abu Ayyub has spoken correctly.
Ahmad recorded it; its chain contains Ibn Lahi'ah, in whom there is weakness.

It is reported from Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him), or perhaps from a man of the Ansar: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas, it is as though he has recited one third of the Qur'an."
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyidah Umm Kulthum bint Uqbah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Surah al-Ikhlas is equal to one third of the Qur'an."
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; the narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is any one of you not able to recite Surah al-Ikhlas at night as his recitation of the Qur'an? For it is equal to the whole Qur'an." Then the narrator mentioned the full hadith.
Abu Ya'la recorded it; its chain contains Ubays bin Maymun, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Is any one of you not able to recite Surah al-Ikhlas three times every night? For it is equal to one third of the Qur'an."
Abu Ya'la recorded it; its chain contains Ubays, who is matruk (abandoned). This complete narration will come later in the chapter on evil officials and the helpers of oppressors, in "Kitab al-Khilafah".

Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever recites Surah al-Ikhlas, it is as though he has recited one third of the Qur'an."
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Zakariyya bin Atiyyah, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is not one of you able to recite one third of the Qur'an in a night?" The people said: "O Messenger of Allah! Who has the strength for that?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is he not able to recite Surah al-Ikhlas? For it is equal to one third of the Qur'an."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat in abridged form; both have various chains, and the narrators of one of them are the narrators of the Sahih, except Abdullah bin Ahmad, who is thiqah (trustworthy) and an Imam.

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Surah al-Ikhlas is equal to one third of the Qur'an."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), though there is disagreement about some of them.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Surah al-Ikhlas is equal to one third of the Qur'an."
Al-Bazzar recorded it from his teacher Mufarrij bin Shuja', who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Surah al-Ikhlas is equal to one third of the Qur'an, and Surah al-Kafirun is equal to one quarter of the Qur'an." The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite these two in the two rak'ahs (Sunnah) of Fajr, and he would say: "These two rak'ahs are such that the desire of all time lies in them." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: al-Tirmidhi recorded from it only the part about reciting these two (surahs) in the two rak'ahs (Sunnah) of Fajr.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains a narrator, Ubaydullah bin Zahr, whom a group declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is weakness in him.