مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب فضائل القرآن
Book of the Virtues of the Quran
من قال: قراءة القرآن أفضل مما سواه
Those who said: reciting the Quran is better than anything else
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٣٢٠٨٤ - حدثنا حسين بن علي عن زائدة عن منصور قال: قال عبد اللَّه: لو أن رجلا (بات) (١) (يحمل) (٢) على الجياد في سبيل اللَّه، وبات رجل يتلو كتاب اللَّه، لكان ذاكر اللَّه أفضلهما (٣).
Mansur said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If one man were to spend the night mounting men on fine horses in the path of Allah, and another man were to spend the night reciting the Book of Allah, the one remembering Allah would be the better of the two."
٣٢٠٨٥ - قال: وقال عبد اللَّه بن (عمرو) (١): (لو) (٢) بات رجل ينفق دينارًا دينارًا ودرهمًا درهمًا ويحمل على الجياد في سبيل اللَّه (وبات رجل يتلو كتاب اللَّه) (٣) حتى يصبح متقبلا منه، وبت أتلو كتاب اللَّه حتى أصبح متقبلا مني لم أحب أن لي عمله بعملي (٤).
The narrator said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) also said: "If a man were to spend the night spending dinar after dinar and dirham after dirham, and mounting men on fine horses in the path of Allah, until he reached the morning with that deed accepted from him, and I were to spend the night reciting the Book of Allah until I reached the morning with my deed accepted from me, I would not like to have the reward of his deed in exchange for my deed."
٣٢٠٨٦ - حدثنا معاذ بن معاذ قال: حدثنا التيمي عن أبي عثمان عن سلمان قال: لو بات رجل يعطي (القنيات) (١) البيض، وبات (آخر) (٢) يقرأ القرآن ويذكر اللَّه لرأيت أن ذاكر اللَّه أفضل (٣).
Abu Uthman said: Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If one man were to spend the night giving away male and female slaves, and another were to spend the night reciting the Qur'an and remembering Allah, I would consider the one remembering Allah to be the better."
٣٢٠٨٧ - حدثنا أبو معاوية عن الأعمش عن شقيق عن عبد اللَّه قال: قراءة القرآن أحب إلي من الصوم (١).
Shaqiq said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Reciting the Qur'an is dearer to me than fasting."
