Imam Aḥmad also transmitted—through the chain of ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Jābir—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: “Shall I not tell you, O ʿAbd Allah ibn Jābir, about the […] surah in the Quran (1)?” I replied, “Indeed, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “Recite: ‘All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds,’ until you finish it.” (2)

This ʿAbd Allah ibn Jābir is al-Bayāḍī al-Anṣārī; some, however, have said that he was al-ʿAbdī.

Al-Nasāʾī relates in “ʿAmal al-Yawm wa’l-Laylah”: ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm told us—ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd told us—Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, from Thābit, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was at a stopping place; he dismounted, and a man dismounted beside him. He turned to him and said, “Shall I not tell you of the best part of the Quran?” He then recited to him: “All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds.” (3)

Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣawwāf likewise narrated in his “Fawāʾid”: Ibrāhīm ibn