It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) that he recited "All praise is for Allah, the Lord of all the worlds" in full before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, it is the Seven Oft-Repeated (al-Sab' al-Mathani) and the Great Qur'an which I have been given." [Surah al-Hijr: 87]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was standing in prayer, and he did not answer. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ubayy, what prevented you from answering me?" He said: "I was praying." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Has Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, not said: 'Respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you' [Surah al-Anfal: 24] ? Do not leave the mosque until I teach you a surah the like of which Allah did not reveal in the Torah, the Gospel or the Psalms." Ubayy said: Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) leaned on my hand, until, when he reached the far end of the mosque, I said: "O Prophet of Allah, you said such-and-such." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, it is the Mother of the Qur'an (Umm al-Qur'an). By the One in whose hand my soul is, Allah did not reveal the like of it in the Torah, the Gospel or the Psalms. It is (equivalent to) the seven long surahs that I have been given, and it is the Great Qur'an." [Surah al-Hijr: 87]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: While Jibril (peace be upon him) was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he heard a creaking sound from the sky. He raised his head and said: "A door of the sky has been opened that has never been opened before. Then an angel came down from it and said: 'Rejoice in two lights that you have been given, which no prophet before you was given: the Opening of the Book (al-Fatihah) and the closing verses of Surah al-Baqarah. You will not recite a single letter of them except that you will be given it (the supplication asked in it).'" This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it in this form; Imam Muslim recorded it in abridged form.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ma'qil bin Yasar (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was given the Opening of the Book (al-Fatihah) from beneath the Throne, and the Mufassal surahs as an additional gift (nafilah)." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent us on a military expedition. We passed by the people of some dwellings and asked them for hospitality, but they refused. We camped in the open, and meanwhile their chief was stung (by some venomous creature). They came to us and asked: "Is there anyone among you who performs ruqyah?" I said: "Yes, I perform ruqyah." They said: "Then perform ruqyah on our companion." I said: "No. We asked you for hospitality and you refused." They said: "Then we will give you (a fee)," and they fixed thirty sheep for us. The narrator says: I went to him and began wiping my hand over him, reciting the Opening of the Book (al-Fatihah) and repeating it again and again until he recovered. We took the sheep, then we said: "We have taken them although we do not know how to perform ruqyah properly; we will not eat them until we ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So we came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned the whole incident. He (peace and blessings be upon him) began to say: "How did you know that it (Surah al-Fatihah) is a ruqyah?" I said: "O Messenger of Allah, I did not know that it is a ruqyah; rather it was something that Allah put into my heart." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Eat them, and set aside a share for me along with you." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording.

Kharijah bin al-Salt al-Tamimi narrates from his paternal uncle that he passed by a people who had with them a madman bound in iron chains. One of them said to him: "Do you have anything with which he can be treated? For your companion (the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him) has brought good." He said: I recited the Opening of the Book (al-Fatihah) over him for three days, twice every day, and he recovered. That man gave him a hundred sheep. He came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and related the whole incident, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Eat, for whoever eats by means of a false ruqyah (is a sinner), but you have eaten by means of a true ruqyah." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was on a journey. He (peace and blessings be upon him) dismounted, and a man dismounted beside him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned to him and said: "Shall I not tell you of the most excellent part of the Qur'an?" Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) recited to him: "All praise is for Allah, the Lord of all the worlds." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I was sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Learn Surah al-Baqarah and Surah Al Imran, for they are the two radiant ones; on the Day of Resurrection they will shade the one who recites them as though they were two clouds, or two canopies, or two flocks of birds with outspread wings." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, everything has a peak, and the peak of the Qur'an is Surah al-Baqarah." Sufyan bin Uyaynah narrated this from Hakim bin Jubayr with some addition.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In Surah al-Baqarah there is a verse which is the chief of all the verses of the Qur'an; it is not recited in a house in which there is a devil except that he leaves it; and that is Ayat al-Kursi." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. The two Shaykhs did not abandon narrating from Hakim bin Jubayr because of weakness in his narrations; rather, they abandoned him because of his extremism in Shi'ism.