Virtues of the Quran's Chapters and Verses

Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 61

Arabic hadith text

عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ يَزِيدَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ كَأَنَّهُ رَأْىُ عَيْنٍ فَلْيَقْرَأْ ‏(‏ إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ ‏)‏ و ‏(‏إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انْفَطَرَتْ ‏)‏ وَ ‏(‏إذَا السَّمَاءُ انْشَقَّتْ ‏)‏ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ ‏.‏ وَرَوَى هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ وَغَيْرُهُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ وَقَالَ مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ كَأَنَّهُ رَأْىُ عَيْنٍ فَلْيَقْرَأْ ‏(‏إذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ ‏)‏ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ و ‏(‏إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انْفَطَرَتْ ‏)‏ وَ ‏(‏إذَا السَّمَاءُ انْشَقَّتْ ‏)‏‏.‏

Translation

ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān—namely, Ibn Yazīd aṣ-Ṣanʿānī—said: I heard Ibn ʿUmar say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Whoever would like to see the Day of Resurrection as though he were seeing it with his own eyes, let him recite “When the sun is folded up” (Sūrat at-Takwīr), “When the heaven is split open” (Sūrat al-Infiṭār), and “When the heaven is split asunder” (Sūrat al-Inshiqāq).’ This is a ḥasan gharīb hadith. Hishām ibn Yūsuf and others narrated this hadith with the same chain and said: ‘Whoever would like to see the Day of Resurrection as though he were seeing it with his own eyes, let him recite “When the sun is folded up” (Sūrat at-Takwīr)’; they did not mention ‘When the heaven is split open’ or ‘When the heaven is split asunder’.

Translation notes
  • ‏ وَرَوَى هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ وَغَيْرُهُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ وَقَالَ مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ كَأَنَّهُ رَأْىُ عَيْنٍ فَلْيَقْرَأْ ‏(‏إذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ ‏)‏ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ و ‏(‏إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انْفَطَرَتْ ‏)‏ وَ ‏(‏إذَا السَّمَاءُ انْشَقَّتْ ‏)‏‏.

    The Arabic includes a compiler’s report of a variant narration that mentions only Sūrat at-Takwīr and explicitly says the other two surahs were not mentioned; the English witness omits this entire report.

    Should the variant report be retained in the translated hadith text?