He reported the Prophet as saying,“If anyone who is about to sleep on his bed lies on his right side, then recites ‘Say, He is God, One’ a hundred times, the Lord will say to him on the day of resurrection, ‘My servant, enter paradise to your right’.”Tirmidhī transmitted it, saying this is a hasan gharīb tradition.

Abū Huraira said:The Prophet, on hearing a man reciting“Say, He is God, One”remarked,“It is certain.”I asked him what was certain, and he replied that it was paradise. Mālik, Tirmidhī and Nasā’i transmitted it.

Farwa b. Naufal quoted his father as saying that he had asked God's messenger to teach him something to say when he went to bed, and was told to recite,“Say, O infidels”, for it is a declaration of freedom from polytheism. Tirmidhī, Abū Dāwūd and Dārimī transmitted it.

‘Uqba b. ‘Āmir said:While I was travelling with God's messenger between *al-Juhfa and al-Abwa’ a wind and intense darkness enveloped us, whereupon God’s messenger began to seek refuge in God, reciting“I seek refuge in the Lord of the dawn”and“I seek refuge in the Lord of men.”(Qur’ān, 113 &114) He then said,“Use them, ‘Uqba, when seeking refuge in God, for no one can use anything to compare with them for the purpose.”*Al Juhfa- a village about 82 miles from Mecca. Al Abwa’- a village between twenty and thirty miles nearer Medina than al-Juhfa. Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.

‘Abdullah b. Khubaib said:We went out one rainy and intensely dark night to look for God’s messenger, and when we caught up on him he said to me,“Say.”I asked him what I was to say, and he replied,“If you recite ‘Say, He is God, One’ and al-Mu'awidhatān (The last 3 sūras of the Qur’ān) three times morning and evening, they will serve you for every purpose.”Tirmidhī, Abū Dāwūd and Nasā’i transmitted it.

‘Uqba b. ‘Āmir said that when he asked God’s messenger whether he should recite sūra Hūd (Qur’ān, 11) or sūra Yūsuf (Qur’ān, 12), he told him he could recite nothing more effective with God than“Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of the dawn.”Ahmad, Nasā’i and Dārimī transmitted it.

Abū Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying,“Expound the Qur’ān and take as guide its unusual expressions, they being the things made obligatory in it and the limits set in it.”Transmitted by Baihaqī in Shu'ab al-īmān.

‘Ā’isha reported the Prophet as saying,“Reciting the Qur’ān during prayer is more excellent than reciting it at other times, and reciting the Qur’ān at a time other than during prayer is more excellent than extolling God and declaring His greatness. Extolling God is more excellent than sadaqa, sadaqa is more excellent than fasting, and fasting is a protection from hell.”Transmitted by Baihaqī in Shu'ab al-īmān.

‘Uthmān b. ‘ Abdallāh b. Aus ath-Thaqafī, on his grandfather’s authority, reported God’s messenger as saying,“A man’s recitation of the Qur’ān without using a copy of it produces a thousand degrees of reward, but his recitation while using a copy is double that, reaching two thousand degrees.”Transmitted by Baihaqī in Shu'ab al-īmān.

Ibn ‘Umar reported God’s messenger as saying,“These hearts be­come rusty just as iron does when water gets to it.”On being asked what could clear them he replied,“A great amount of remembrance of death and recitation of the Qur’ān.”Transmitted by Baihaqī in Shu'ab al-īmān.