Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 27

ʿAwn ibn Abī Juḥayfah, from al-Mundhir ibn Jarīr, from his father, said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) in the early part of the day when a people came to him, barefoot and naked, wearing striped woollen cloaks or outer garments and carrying their swords slung at their sides. Most of them were from Muḍar—indeed, all of them were from Muḍar. The Messenger of Allah’s face changed when he saw their poverty. He went inside, then came out and instructed Bilāl to give the call to prayer and the call to begin the prayer. He prayed, then delivered a sermon, saying: ‘O people, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul’ to the end of the verse, ‘Indeed, Allah is ever watchful over you’; and the verse in al-Ḥashr: ‘Fear Allah, and let every soul consider what it has sent ahead for tomorrow; and fear Allah.’ A man should give charity from his dinar, his dirham, his garment, a ṣāʿ of his wheat, a ṣāʿ of his dates—until he said—even half a date. Then a man from the Anṣār came with a bundle that his hand could scarcely manage—in fact, could not. Then people came in succession, until I saw two heaps of food and clothing. I saw the Messenger of Allah’s face shining as though gilded. The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Whoever establishes a good practice in Islam will have its reward and the reward of those who act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their rewards. Whoever establishes a bad practice in Islam will bear its burden and the burden of those who act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their burdens.’