and further prohibitions.

Thus, a worshipper who is unaware of many of these matters is excused and rewarded, whereas a worshipper who knows the Muhammadan reports yet oversteps them is inferior and self-deluded. The deeds most beloved to Allah—exalted is He—are those performed with constancy, even if they are few.

May Allah inspire us and you with sound adherence, and keep us from whim and contravention.

Ahmad said in his Musnad:

Qutaybah narrated to us; Ibn Lahiʿah narrated to us, from Wahb ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Maʿāfirī, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, who said:

“I saw in my sleep as though one of my two fingers contained clarified butter and the other honey, and I was licking them. When morning came, I mentioned that to the Prophet ﷺ, and he said, ‘You will recite the two Scriptures: the Torah and the Furqan (the Qur’an).’ So he used to recite them (1).”

Ibn Lahiʿah is weak in hadith. This report is objectionable, and it is not prescribed for anyone, after the revelation of the Qur’an, to read the Torah or to memorize it, for it has been altered and distorted, its rulings abrogated, and truth has become mixed with falsehood within it; therefore it must be avoided.

As for consulting it for reflection or for refuting the Jews, there is no harm if a learned man does so sparingly, though avoidance is preferable (2).

As for the narration that the Prophet ﷺ supposedly allowed ʿAbd Allah to stand one night with the Qur’an and another night with the Torah, it is a fabricated lie—may Allah disgrace the one who forged it.

And it has been said: rather, the ʿAbd Allah mentioned here is Ibn