Virtues of the Quran's Chapters and Verses
Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 17
Arabic hadith text
عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاق ، عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ عَلِيًّا ، يَقُولُ :" مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَعْقِلُ يَنَامُ، حَتَّى يَقْرَأَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْآيَاتِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ ، وَإِنَّهُنَّ لَمِنْ كَنْزٍ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ.
Translation
Abū Isḥāq, from someone who heard ʿAlī, said: ‘I did not think that anyone of understanding would sleep without reciting these verses from the end of Sūrat al-Baqarah; they are indeed among the treasures beneath the Throne.’
Translation notes
عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاق ،
The Arabic preserves a chain from Abū Isḥāq through an unnamed person who heard ʿAlī. The English witness omits this chain and presents ʿAlī directly.
Should the English witness’s shorter attribution be treated as an abridged rendering of this same occurrence?