Reciting the Qur’an Everday and its Reward; The Status of the Umm al-Kitab ‘Mother of the Book’, Three Verses, Surat al-Tawhid; The Different Categories of Reciters; Reciting Verses By Night

The Qur’an is the covenant of Allah to His creatures, it is incumbent therefore on a Muslim man to look into his covenant and that he recite fifty verses from it every day

I heard him (i.e. the Imam) saying: It is incumbent on a man when he wakes up (in the morning) that he recite after the Taʿqīb (post dawn-prayer supplications) fifty verses

What prevents a merchant among you who is busy in his market-place that he does not sleep when he returns back to his home until he recites a Chapter from the Qur’an? So it will be written for him in place of every verse that he recites ten good-deeds and ten evil-deeds will be effaced for him .

I said to him: In how many (days) should I recite the (whole) Qur’an? He (i.e. the Imam) said: Recite it in fifths, recite it in sevenths, as for me then I have a codex divided into fourteen parts

When Allah Mighty and Majestic ordered these verses to go down to the Earth they attached themselves to the Throne and said: ‘O Lord - where are you sending us down to? To the people of mistakes and sins?!’ So Allah Mighty and Majestic revealed to them: ‘Go down - for by My Might and Majesty - no one from the Family of Muḥammad and their Shīʿa (followers) will recite you at the end of what I have obligated on him of the Maktūba (obligatory prayers) every day except that I will glance at him with my Hidden Eye, in every day seventy glances, I fulfill for him in each glance seventy wishes and accept him despite what he has of sins’. They (the verses) are: Umm al-Kitāb (The Mother of the Book), “Allah witnesses that there is no God except Himself, (so do) the angels, and the possessors of Knowledge …” (3:18), Āyat al-Kursī (The Verse of the Chair), and Āyat al-Mulk (The Verse of the Kingdom)

My father صلوات الله عليه used to say: Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad is a third of the Qur’an, and, Qul Yā Ayyuhā l-Kāfirūn is a fourth of the Qur’an

I heard Aba Abdillah عليه السلام say: Whoever recites Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad a hundred times when he betakes himself to his bed-spread (i.e. before sleeping) - it is forgiven for him what he has committed (of sins) fifty years prior to that. Yahya said: I asked Sama’a about that, so he (i.e. Sama’a) said: Abu Basir narrated (it) to me and said ‘I heard Aba Abdillah saying that’ and he (i.e. the Imam) added: O Aba Muhammad (i.e. Abu Basir) indeed if you were to try it you will find it to be true .

The one who recites a hundred verses in his prayers at night - Allah Mighty and Majestic records for him devotion of the whole night (in reward) for it. The one who recites two hundred verses [at night] outside (his) prayers - the Qur’an will not dispute against him on the Day of Judgment. And the one who recites five hundred verses (total) in his prayers by day and at night - Allah Mighty and Majestic records for him in the Preserved Tablet a Qinṭār of good-deeds, and a Qinṭār is a thousand and two hundred Ūqiyya, and a (single) Ūqiyya is greater than the mountain of Uhud

If al-Ḥamd were recited upon a dead body seventy times and the soul is returned into it (i.e. the dead body) that would not be surprising

The Qurrāʾ of the Qur’an are three: A man who memorized the Qur’an so he takes it to be merchandise, attracts by it the rulers (to himself), and gains by it prominence over the masses. A man who memorized the Qur’an so he preserves its letters but neglects its bounds, and treats it the way one does a drinking-cup. May Allah not increase such ones from among the bearers of the Qur’an! And a man who memorized the Qur’an so he applies the ointment of the Qur’an over the ailment of his heart. He keeps awake by it his nights, thirstens by it his days, stands with it in his places of prostration, and abandons for it his bed-wrap. Because of them does Allah the All-Mighty and Most-Powerful avert tribulations, because of them does Allah Mighty and Majestic grant victory over enemies, and because of them does Allah Mighty and Majestic send down rain from the sky. For I swear by Allah - such ones among the Qurrāʾ of the Qur’an are rarer than Red Sulphur!

Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: Whoever recites Sūrat al-Kahf every Friday eve (i.e. Thursday night) it becomes an expiation for him for what is between one Friday to another Friday (i.e. of sins) .

Ali عليه السلام said: Whoever prays Ṣalāt al-Fajr (the dawn prayer) and then recites Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad eleven times - no sin will follow this on that day, though the Devil’s nose be soiled (i.e. though the Devil be humiliated because he will try to persuade one to sin but will not succeed however much he tries)