Question

Is the following narration authentic?

“One who recites the Holy Quran looking inside after Fajr salah and reads one hundred verses gets a reward as large as the entire world”

Answer

Imam Ghazali (rahimahullah) and others have cited this narration without a chain of narrators as the statement of ‘Umar ibn Maymun (rahimahullah) a Tab’ut Tabi’i, and not as a Hadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam).

(Ihya ‘Ulumid Din, vol. 2, pg. 263, Al Mustatraf, vol. 1, pg. 36. Also see Ithafus Sadah Al Muttaqin, vol. 4, pg. 467)

And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.

Answered by: Mawlana Suhail Motala

Approved by: Mawlana Muhammad Abasoomar

Checked by: Mawlana Haroon Abasoomar