The shaykh, imam, master-reciter and distinguished leader, Kamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Fāris al-Tamīmī al-Saʿdī, informed us; the book was read to him while I listened in Ramadan of the year 674 AH.
Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd al-Kindī likewise informed us; the judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Anṣārī informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī informed us in the year 455 AH; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhlis reported to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī narrated to us; and Shurayḥ ibn Yūnus, Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Adamī, Ibn al-Bazzār, and Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh all said:
Maʿn narrated to us, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Baḥīr ibn Saʿd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, who said:
The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“The one who recites the Quran quietly is like a person who gives charity in secret, and the one who recites the Quran aloud is like a person who gives charity openly.”