By this same chain, reaching Abu Nuʿaym: the judge Abu Ahmad narrated to us; Ahmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim narrated to us; al-Azraq ibn ʿAlī Abū al-Jahm narrated to us; Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kirmānī narrated to us; Khālid ibn Saʿīd al-Madani narrated to us; from Abū Ḥāzim; from Sahl, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Every deed has a summit, and the summit of the Qur’an is Sūrat al-Baqarah. Whoever recites it in his house by night, Satan will not enter that house for three nights; and whoever recites it in his house by day, Satan will not enter that house for three days.” (1)
By this same chain, reaching Abu Nuʿaym: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Siyāh narrated to us; Ahmad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; Hudbah narrated to us; Abān narrated to us; from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, who said:
“It has reached me that on the Day of Resurrection the Qur’an will be taken up, all of it save Sūrat Yūsuf and Sūrat Maryam; the people of Paradise will speak by means of those two surahs.” (2)
Bilāl al-Ḥabashī informed us; Ibn Rawāḥ informed us; al-Salafī informed us; Muḥammad and Aḥmad, the two sons of Abū al-Qāsim al-Sūdhrajānī, informed us; ʿAlī ibn Maylah al-Farāḍī dictated to us; Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim narrated to us; al-Muqaddamī narrated to us; ʿAbd Rabbih al-Ḥanafī narrated to us; Simāk al-Ḥanafī narrated to us; I heard Ibn ʿAbbās say:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “O ʿĀʾishah! Whoever from my community has two faratān—two children who have preceded him to the Hereafter—will enter Paradise.”
She asked, “O Prophet of Allah! And the one who has only a single farat (a child who has gone on ahead)?” And he said—