📖Qur'anic Sciences

The Virtues of the Qur’an by Al-Qasim bin Salam

Name: The Virtues of the Qur’an by Al-Qasim bin Salam
Author: أبو عُبيد القاسم بن سلاّم بن عبد الله الهروي البغدادي (المتوفى: 224هـ)

فضائل القرآن للقاسم بن سلام

Author: أبو عُبيد القاسم بن سلاّم بن عبد الله الهروي البغدادي (المتوفى: 224هـ) (d. 224)

About this work

كتاب في علوم القرآن، جمع فيه مؤلفه أبو عبيد القاسم بن سلام جملةً من الأحاديث والآثار المتعلقة بفضل القرآن الكريم وتعلمه وتعليمه، وبيان آداب تلاوته وحملته. يتناول الكتاب موضوعات متنوعة تشمل فضل قراءة القرآن والاستماع إليه، وفضل أهله وتقديمهم، وأحكام تتعلق بقراءته كالترتيل وتحسين الصوت به، ومسائل في ختمه والمواظبة على ورده، مع بيان ما ينبغي لحامل القرآن من الأدب والتعظيم، والتحذير من نسيانه أو الاستئكال به.

Translation

A book on the sciences of the Qur’an, in which its author, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam, collected a number of hadiths and traces related to the merits of the Holy Qur’an, its learning and teaching, and an explanation of the etiquette of its recitation and carrying it. The book deals with various topics, including the virtue of reading and listening to the Qur’an, the virtue and honor of its people, rulings related to reciting it such as recitation and improving one’s voice with it, and issues regarding concluding it and reciting it regularly, with an explanation of the etiquette and glorification that should be given to the bearer of the Qur’an, and a warning against forgetting it or relying on it.

Topics covered

A book on the virtues of the Qur’an, its features, and its etiquette
Chapter on the virtue of the Qur’an, learning it and teaching it to people
Chapter on the virtue of reading and listening to the Qur’an
Chapter on the virtue of encouraging the Qur’an, recommending it, and preferring it over anything else
Chapter on venerating the people of the Qur’an, presenting them, and honoring them
Chapter on the virtue of knowing the Qur’an and striving to seek it
Chapter on the virtue of reading the Qur’an from view and reading the Qur’an by one who does not recite the Qur’an
Chapter on the virtue of completing the Qur’an
A collection of chapters on reciters of the Qur’an, their attributes, and their morals
Chapter on the bearer of the Qur’an and what he must follow from the etiquette of the Qur’an
Chapter on what is desirable for the reciter of the Qur’an to repeat and repeat the verse
Chapter: What is desirable for the reader to improve the Qur’an and embellish it with his voice
Chapter: The reader recites the Qur’an loudly to his companions and thus harms them
Chapter: The reader extends his voice to the Qur’an at night while being alone with it
The reader’s chapter links the two surahs of the Qur’an together
Chapter: The reader recites the Qur’an in seven or three nights
Chapter: The reader completes the entire Qur’an in one night or in one rak’ah
Chapter: The reciter reads the Qur’an without performing ablution and recites it side by side
Chapter: The reader is shocked when reading the Qur’an, and whoever hates that and criticizes him
All chapters of the Qur’an’s surahs, its verses, and the virtues in them
Chapter on mentioning In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, its virtues, and its hadith
Chapter on the virtue of the opening of the book
Chapter on the Seven Virtues of Longevity
Chapter on the virtues of Surah Al-Baqarah, its endings, and Ayat Al-Kursi
Chapter on the virtue of Surah Al-Baqarah, Al Imran, and women

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