The Inviolables of Allah and the Reward of Reciting and Learning It
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[1549/1] امالي الصدوق ومعاني الاخبار: أبي عن الحميري عن اليقطيني عن يونس عن عبد الله بن سنان عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: لله عزوجل حرمات ثلاث ليس مثلهن شئ: كتابه وهو حكمته ونوره، وبيته الذي جعله قبلة للناس لا يقبل من أحد توجها إلى غيره، وعترة نبيكم صلى الله عليه وآله
[1/1549] Amali of al-Saduq and Ma’ani al-Akhbar: My father from al-Himyari from al-Yaqtini from Yunus from Abdallah b. Sinan from Abi Abdillahعليه السلام who said: Allah Mighty and Majestic has three Inviolables, there is nothing comparable to them: His Book, and it is His Wisdom and Light; His House which He made a Qibla (direction) for the people, it is not accepted from anyone a facing other than towards it; and the Descendants of your Prophetصلى الله عليه وآله
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[-/2] الكافي: عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد وسهل بن زياد، جميعا، عن ابن محبوب عن جميل بن صالح، عن الفضيل بن يسار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: تعلموا القرآن فإنه يأتي يوم القيامة صاحبه في صورة شاب جميل شاحب اللون فيقول له القرآن: أنا الذي كنت أسهرت ليلك وأظمأت هواجرك وأجففت ريقك وأسلت دمعتك أؤول معك حيثما الت وكل تاجر من وراء تجارته وأنا اليوم لك من وراء تجارة كل تاجر وسيأتيك كرامة [من] الله عزوجل فأبشر، فيؤتى بتاج فيوضع على رأسه ويعطى الامان بيمينه والخلد في الجنان بيساره ويكسى حلتين ثم يقال له: اقرء وارقه فكلما قرء آية صعد درجة ويكسى أبواه حلتين إن كانا مؤمنين ثم يقال لهما: هذا لما علمتماه القرآن
[2/-] al-Kafi: A number of our companions from Ahmad b. Muhammad and Sahl b. Ziyad all together from Ibn Mahbub from Jamil b. Salih from al-Fudhayl b. Yasar from Abi Abdillahعليه السلام who said: Learn the Qur’an, for it (i.e. the Qur’an) will come to its Companion (i.e. the one who learnt it) on the Day of Judgment in the form of a handsome youth, pale in colour - and will say to him: ‘I am the Qur’an who used to keep awake your nights, make thirsty your mid-days, dry up your saliva, and cause your tears to over-flow. I will turn with you wherever you turn (i.e. accompany you constantly), for every merchant is behind (after) his merchandise (i.e. seeking profit for and from it), and I will be for you today the way every merchant is behind (after) his merchandise. There will come to you an Honour from Allah Mighty and Majestic so receive glad-tidings’. Then a crown will be brought and placed on his head (i.e. the Companion of the Qur’an), and he will be given the Writ of Security in his right hand, and the Writ to Eternity in the Gardens in his left hand, and he will be attired with two robes. Then it will be said to him (i.e. the Companion of the Qur’an): ‘Recite and ascend!’, so every time he recites a verse he ascends a level. And his two parents will also be attired with two robes if they are believers, then it will be said to them both: ‘This is because you (pl.) taught him the Qur’an’
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[1550/3] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن صفوان، عن سعيد بن عبدالله الاعرج قال: سألت أبا عبدالله عليه السلام عن الرجل يقرأ القرآن ثم ينساه ثم يقرأه ثم ينساه أعليه فيه حرج؟ فقال: لا
[3/1550] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Safwan from Sa’id al-A’raj who said: I asked Aba Abdillah عليه السلام about a man who memorizes the Qur’an, then he forgets it, then he memorizes it (again), then he forgets it, is there on him any sin because of this? He (i.e. the Imam) said: No