Yahya ibn Waththaab read the entire Qur.aan to ‘Ubayd ibn Nudhaylah – a companion of ‘Alqamah, and with him he memorised an aayah every day.
Tag: aayah
I read the Qur.aan to ‘Umar
I read the Qur.aan to ‘Umar [ibn al-Khattaab] رضي الله عنه three times.
Reciting Quraan before he died
I was with al-Junayd when death was approaching him, and he completed [reciting] the Qur.aan, then began [reciting again from] Soorah al-Baqarah – reciting seventy aayahs before he died.
The more a person increases in knowledge
There is no doubt, the more a person increases in knowledge, naturally he increases in learning and differentiating the truth from the falsehood, and the harmful from the beneficial, and like this he…
I yearn to remain standing until my body aches
Talq ibn Habeeb would not go into rukoo’ once he started Soorah al-Baqarah (p2) until he reached [Soorah] al-‘Ankaboot (p396), and he would say
{you shall be brought back to Allaah}
I heard Sa’eed ibn Jubayr repeat this aayah in the prayer twenty odd times: And fear the Day when you shall be brought back to Allaah – al-Baqarah 2:281