Abu Hatim said: “His hadith is rejected.” Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Weak.”

2342 — “Whoever wishes that Allah and His Messenger should love him should read from the mushaf (written copy of the Quran).”

Ibn Shahin recorded it in al-Targhib (fol. 288/1), as did Ibn Adi (111/2) and Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilyah (7/209); al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar also narrated it from him in Nataʾij al-Afkar (1/231/2), through Ibrahim ibn Jabir: al-Hurr ibn Malik narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us from Abu Ishaq, from Abu al-Ahwas, from Abd Allah, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Ibn Adi said: “No one narrated it from Shuʿbah except al-Hurr. He narrated few hadiths, and this report from Shuʿbah is rejected.” Al-Hafiz then said: “I say: This agrees with what Muslim said in the introduction to his Sahih: ‘The sign of a rejected narration in a transmitter’s hadith is that he should take someone such as al-Zuhri—who has transmitted abundantly and has many narrators reporting from him—and narrate from him something that none of them possesses.’”

Al-Dhahabi said in his biographical notice: “He brought a false report, saying: ...” Then he mentioned it and said: “Written copies of the Quran were only produced after the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.”

Al-Hafiz refuted this, saying: “This reasoning is weak, for it is reported in the two Sahihs that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade one to travel