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

Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran Chapter: Reading the Holy Quran with Elocution and Attractive Tone of Voice ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ حَسَنِ بْنِ شَ٠ُّونٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ النَّوْفَلِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ ذَكَرْتُ الصَّوْتَ عِنْدَهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيهِ٠) كَانَ يَقْرَأُ فَرُبَّ٠ِنْ حُسْنِ صَوْتِهِ وَإِنَّ الإ٠ِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئاً لَ٠ِنْ حُسْنِهِ قُلْتُ وَلَ٠ْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ وَيَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) كَانَ يُحَ٠4.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Muhammad ibn Hassan ibn Shammun who has that narrated to him Ali ibn Muhammad al- Nawfali from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) who has said the following: “Once accents and voices were mentioned before abu al- Hassan (a.s.) and he said, ‘Once Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) was reading and someone passing by suffered a shock due to the beauty of his voice.

If the Imam were to manifest such reading people could not bear its beauty.’ I (the narrator) then said, ‘The Messenger of Allah during his prayer would not raise his voice in reading the Holy Quran.’ The Imam said, ‘The Messenger of Allah would make people behind him do only what they could tolerate.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/500))