ʿAbdullāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us; from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd; from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taymī; from Abū Ḥāzim al-Tammār; from al-Bayāḍī—may Allah be pleased with him—who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to the people while they were praying and their voices in recitation had grown loud. He said, “The one who is praying is confiding with his Lord, so let him consider well what he says in that intimate discourse, and let none of you raise his voice over another’s in recitation.”

Isḥāq narrated to us; he heard from ʿAbda; from Ibn Isḥāq; from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith; from Abū Ḥāzim, the client of Hudhayl, who said: “I stayed in the Mosque of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as a neighbor with some of the Banū Bayāḍah from the Anṣār, and one of them related this report to me from the Prophet ﷺ.”

Qutaybah narrated to us; Bakr narrated to us; from Ibn al-Hādī; from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm; from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār; from an Anṣārī man who heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say the same.

Ibn Masʿūd—may Allah be pleased with him—likewise said that the Prophet ﷺ gave this instruction. Ibn Masʿūd related that the Prophet ﷺ once said to some people who were reciting the Quran aloud, “You have confused the Quran for me,” meaning: “Your voices rose so high that you distracted me by drowning out my own, thus mixing it up for me.” Accordingly, the Prophet ﷺ forbade anyone to raise his voice above another’s or to unsettle people by loud recitation and shouting. He did not forbid the Quran itself, nor the speech of Allah with which He addressed Moses before this community was created.