al-Kindī: The judge Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Bāqī al-Ansārī informed us: Abū al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hasanūn al-Narsī informed us in 455 AH: Abū Tāhir Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Mukhlis informed us: Abū al-Qāsim Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Baghawī narrated to us: Shurayh ibn Yūnus, Muhammad ibn Yazīd al-Ādamī, Ibn al-Bazzār, and Hārūn ibn Abd Allāh narrated to us. They said:

Ma'n narrated to us, from Mu'āwiya ibn Sālih, from Buhayr ibn Sa'd, from Khālid ibn Ma'dān, from Uqba ibn Āmir al-Juhanī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“One who recites the Quran privately is like one who gives charity secretly, and one who recites the Quran openly is like one who gives charity openly.”

This was also related to us through a chain one degree higher, with a corresponding transmission from Ahmad ibn Abd al-Dā'im: Ibn Kulayb informed us: Ibn Bayān informed us: Ibn Makhlad narrated to us: al-Saffār informed us: Ibn Arafa narrated to us: Ismā'īl ibn Ayyāsh narrated to us, from Buhayr (and he related the hadith).

He was born in 596 AH and died in Safar, 676 AH.

The fourteenth hadith:

The imam and hadith transmitter, Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Abī al-Khayr Salāma ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Salāma ibn al-Haddād al-Dimashqī, informed us through my reading to him, while I