Fadail al-Quran lil-Mustaghfiri
- Author died
- 432 AH
- Editions
- Dār Ibn Ḥazm
Fada'il al-Qur'an (The Virtues of the Quran) is a hadith compendium by Abu al-Abbas al-Mustaghfiri (d. 432 AH / 1041 CE) devoted to prophetic traditions and early reports concerning the merits of the Quran and its recitation .
Content and Structure
The work is organized into thematic chapters (abwab) and structured across multiple parts (ajza'), extending to at least twenty-two traditional parts . It compiles hadiths with full chains of transmission (asānīd) tracing back through various regional authorities, documenting both elevated (marfūʿ) and Companion (mawqūf) reports .
The subject matter covers diverse aspects of Quranic study, including:
- Sincerity of intention and warnings against reciting the Quran for worldly motives .
- Ritual purity, the use of the tooth-stick (siwāk), and night prayer during recitation .
- The modes and letters of revelation (aḥruf) and the collection of the Quran by the Companions .
- Virtues associated with particular chapters and verses, as well as rulings regarding the prostrations of recitation (sujūd al-tilāwah) .
- Eschatological narrations concerning the eventual lifting of the Quran from the earth prior to the Day of Judgment .
Transmission and Publication
The primary transmission (riwāyah) of the text is preserved through al-Mustaghfiri's student, the judge and hadith scholar Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Malik ibn al-Husayn al-Nasafi . Manuscript copies also preserve colophons by scribes such as Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Bazdawi .
In modern scholarship, the book was edited by Ahmad ibn Faris al-Sallum and published in two volumes by Dar Ibn Hazm in Beirut (1427 AH / 2006 CE) .
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