Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran

Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran Chapter: The Excellence of the Carriers of the Holy Quran 7ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ الْقَاسَانِيِّ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنِ الْقَاسِ٠َّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْ٠َانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيهِ٠َالِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ الْحَالُّ الْ٠ُرْتَحِلُ قُلْتُ وَ٠َا الْحَالُّ الْ٠ُرْتَحِلُ قَالَ فَتْحُ الْقُرْآنِ وَخَتْ٠َا جَاءَ بِأَوَّلِهِ ارْتَحَلَ فِي آخِرِهِ وَقَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) ٠َنْ أَعْطَاهُ الله الْقُرْآنَ فَرَأَى أَنَّ رَجُلاً أُعْطِيَ أَفْضَلَ ٠َّا أُعْطِيَ فَقَدْ صَغَّرَ عَظِي٠7.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qasani all have narrated from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from Sulayman ibn Dawud from Sufyan ibn ‘Uyayna from al-Zuhri who has said the following: “Once I asked Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) ‘What deed is more virtuous?’ He said, ‘Al-Hall al- Murtahal.’ I then asked, ‘What is al-Hall al-MurtahalT The Imam said, ‘It is one who opens the Holy Quran and completes reading, whenever he begins he arrives at the end of the Holy Quran.’ The Imam said that the Messenger of Allah has said, ‘If one who has received the Holy Quran would think that what others have received is better than what he has received, he has considered something very great as insignificant, and something insignificant as very great.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/487))