It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I entered the mosque on Friday while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was delivering the sermon, and I sat down near Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited Surah Bara'ah (al-Tawbah), and I asked Ubayy: When was this surah revealed? He looked at me with displeasure and did not speak to me; (the narrator mentioned the whole hadith). Imam al-Hakim says: I found it like this in my book, and I searched for it at full length in the Musnad collections but could not find it, and this hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he asked: In your view, which was the last recitation (in the course of the revelation of the Qur'an)? The people said: The recitation of Zayd bin Thabit. He said: No! Rather, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to review the Qur'an with (present it to) Jibril (peace be upon him) every year, and in the year in which he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, he reviewed it twice. So the recitation of Abdullah bin Mas'ud was the very last recitation. This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording, and the scholarly benefit of this hadith is the special mention of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Qur'an was presented (reviewed) before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) several times; and the people say that this present recitation of ours is in accordance with the final presentation (al-ardah al-akhirah). Part of this hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari and part on the condition of Imam Muslim, but they did not record it; it is among the hadiths about the recitations of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) which the two Shaykhs did not mention despite their chains being authentic.

Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I recited to Isma'il bin Qustantin, and he used to say: "Al-Quran" (the Qur'an) is a name, and it is without a hamzah; this word is not derived from "qara'tu" (I read), because if it had been derived from "qara'tu", then everything that is read would be called a Qur'an. Rather, it is a specific name for the Speech of Allah, like the Torah and the Injil. When we say "qara'tu" we pronounce it with a hamzah, but when we say "al-Quran" we do not pronounce a hamzah in it. (It should be noted that Imam al-Shafi'i learned the recitation from Isma'il, he from Shibl, he from Abdullah bin Kathir, he from Mujahid, he from Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Abbas from Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him), and Ubayy received the recitation directly from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "Ya nabi'a Allah" (O Prophet of Allah, with a hamzah). So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am not 'nabi'a Allah' (the word with a hamzah); rather, I am 'nabiyyu Allah' (the Prophet of Allah, without a hamzah)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it, and it has a detailed supporting narration (shahid) whose chain is not on the condition of this book.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that neither the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ever pronounced a hamzah (in words such as "nabi"), nor Abu Bakr, nor Umar, nor the other Caliphs. Rather, pronouncing the hamzah (in such words) is an innovation invented by the people who came after them. (Note that regarding one of the narrators in its chain, Musa bin Ubaydah, Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal said: I do not write the hadith of Musa bin Ubaydah al-Rabadhi and Abd al-Rahman bin Ziyad al-Ifriqi, because they are weak.)

Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ya'qub al-Shaybani al-Hafiz narrates from Abu Zakariyya Yahya bin Muhammad bin Yahya, and he from Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, that he said: "I neither write the hadith of Musa bin Ubaydah al-Rabadhi, nor do I record (as proof) the hadith of Abd al-Rahman bin Ziyad al-Ifriqi."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Noble Qur'an was revealed with tafkhim (pronouncing the letters full and heavy)"; such as the form of these words: "'udhuran", "nudhuran", "al-sudufayn", and "Unquestionably, His is the creation and the command" [Al-A'raf: 54] , and other similar examples in the Qur'an. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), the pure wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to break up his recitation (pausing after each verse): "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful", "All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds", "The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful", "Master of the Day of Judgement" [Surah al-Fatihah: 1-4] .

It is narrated from Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite verse by verse, separately: first he would recite "All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds" and then pause, then he would recite "The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" and then pause. Ibn Abi Mulaykah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to read this word as "maliki yawm al-din" (without an alif). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.