Fadail al-Quran li Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- Author died
- 1206 AH
- Editions
- Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Fadail al-Quran (فضائل القرآن, "Virtues of the Quran") is a treatise by the scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1206 AH / 1792 CE) on the merits of reciting, learning, and teaching the Quran .
Structure and Contents
The work is organized into eighteen chapters (abwab). It opens with a chapter on the virtues of reciting, learning, and teaching the Quran (bab fadail tilawat al-Quran wa-ta'allumihi wa-ta'limih) and concludes with a chapter concerning melodious recitation and chanting of the Quran (bab ma ja'a fi al-taghanni bi-al-Quran) .
Manuscripts and Publication History
A manuscript of the work is preserved in Riyadh at the library of the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta under collection number 460/86 .
The treatise has been published in multiple printings:
- It was printed unedited in the compilation al-Durar al-Saniyyah (volume 10, pages 3–10) under the title Bab fadail tilawat al-Quran wa-ta'allumihi wa-ta'limih .
- It was published within the collected works of the author (Majmu muallafat al-shaykh al-imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab), issued by Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University for the Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Week, appearing in the fourth section (pages 3–40) .
- An edition edited by Fahd al-Rumi under the title Fadail al-Quran al-Karim was published in a second edition in 1418 AH .
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