Ibn ‘Umar reported the Prophet as saying,“He who studies the Qur’ān is like the owner of tethered camels. If he pays attention to them he keeps hold of them, but if he lets them loose they go away." (Bukhārī and Muslim.)

Jundub b. ‘Abdallāh reported God’s messenger as saying,“Recite the Qur’ān as long as you can concentrate on it, but when your concentra­tion flags give it up.”(Bukhārī and Muslim.)

Qatādā said that when Anas was asked how the Prophet recited the Qur’ān he replied that he did so prolonging the words. Then he recited“In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,”prolonging each phrase. Bukhārī transmitted it.

Abū Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying,“God has not listened to anything as He does to a prophet chanting* the Qur’ān.”*There are different opinions about the meaning of yataghannā which is here used. While some explain it as in the translation, others prefer to understand it in the sense of yastaghnī which means being content with. (Bukhārī and Muslim.)

He reported God’s messenger as saying,“God has not listened to anything as He does to a prophet with a good voice reciting the Qur’ān aloud.”(Bukhārī and Muslim.)

He reported God’s messenger as saying,“He does not belong to us who does not chant the Qur’ān.”Bukhārī transmitted it.

Abdallāh b. Mas'ūd said:When God’s Messenger was on the pulpit he asked him to recite to him and he replied,“Shall I recite to you when it was sent down to you?”He said that he liked to hear it from someone else, so ‘Abdallāh recited Sūrat an-Nisa’ up to this verse,“How then shall it be when We bring from every people a witness and bring you against them as witness?”(Al-Qur’ān, 4:1-41) Then on being told that that was enough for the present, he turned round to him and saw the tears falling from his eyes. (Bukhārī and Muslim.)

Anas reported God’s messenger as saying to Ubayy b. Kā'b,“God has commanded me to recite the Qur’ān to you.”He asked,“Did God mention me to you by name?”and when he was told that He had, he said,“Have I been mentioned in the presence of the Lord of the uni­verse?”On being told that he had, tears fell from his eyes. In a version he said God had commanded him to recite to him“Those who disbelieve were not …”(Qur’ān, 98). He asked if He had mentioned him by name, and when he was told that He had, he wept. (Bukhārī and Muslim.)

Ibn ‘Umar said that God’s-messenger forbade taking the Qur’ān into enemy territory. A version by Muslim has,“Do not take the Qur’ān with you when travelling, for I cannot guarantee that the enemy will not get it.”(Bukhārī and Muslim.)

Abū Sa'īd al-Khudrī said:I sat with a company of the poor*members of the Emigrants who were sitting close together because of lack of clothing while a reader was reciting to us. God’s messenger came along and stood beside us, and when he did so the reader stopped and gave him a salutation. He asked what we were doing, and when we told him we were listening to God’s Book he said,“Praise be to God who has put among my people those with whom I have been ordered to keep myself.”(Qur’ān,18:28) He then sat down among us so as to be like one of us, and when he had made a sign with his hand they sat in a circle with their faces turned towards him, and he said,“Rejoice, you group of poor Emigrants, in the announcement that you will have perfect light on the day of resurrection. You will enter paradise half a day before the rich, and that is five hundred years.”*Lit. 'Weak'. This is said to refer to the people who lived in the Suffa Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.