Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

Tabarânî [1] and Ibn Hibbân, declares: “The prayer of a person who
accomplishes a khatm of the Qur’ân al-kerîm is acceptable.” It is
written in Kitâb-ut tibyân [2] , “Rahma (Allah’s mercy and
compassion) rains on a place where the khatm of the Qur’ân alkerîm
is performed. It is mustahab to say prayers after a khatm. It
is mustahab to assemble when doing a khatm of the Qur’ân alkerîm.
Hadrat Abdullah ibn ’Abbâs would have one of his men
keep company with the person doing a khatm. And he himself
would join them when the khatm was finished. Hadrat Enes bin
Mâlik would gather his household together and pray whenever he
did a khatm. It is mustahab to begin another khatm when one
khatm is over. A hadîth-i sherîf declares: “The best of worships is
to begin a new khatm when one khatm is over.” Hadîths, which
exist in Khazînat-ul esrâr, declare: “Sixty thousand angels pray for
a person who makes a khatm of the Qur’ân al-kerîm,” and, “A
person who attends a place where they are doing the prayer of
khatm is like a person who is present while the ghanîma is being
divided and distributed. A person who is present at the place
where they begin a khatm is like one who makes jihâd. A person
who attends both attains the thawâbs for both and thus thwarts the
Shaytân.” Sa’d ibn Ebî Waqqâs said: “If a person reads (a passage
from the Qur’ân al-kerîm) for a khatm during the day, angels pray
for him till evening. If he does so at night, they pray for him till
morning.”
A hadîth-i sherîf, which exists in Kunûz-ud deqâiq and which is
transmitted by (Abû Nasr) Daylamî, declares: “A person who
reads the Qur’ân al-kerîm observing the rules of tajwîd is given the
thawâb of a martyr.”
As is seen, there is an independent thawâb for reading each of
its âyats. The thawâb given to a person who makes a khatm of the
[1] Suleymân bin Ahmad Tabarânî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (260,
Tabariyya, Damascus – 360 [971 A.D.], the same place,) a profound
scholar in the branch of Hadîth. In order to write his celebrated books
of hadîth-i-sherîfs, Kebîr, Awsat, and Saghîr, he travelled for thirtythree
years. Among the places he visited, Iraq, Hidjaz, Yemen, and
Egypt were only a few. Ibni Hibbân Abû Khâtim Muhammad bin
Ahmad Temîmî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (d. 354 [966 A.D.],
Semerkand,) was another profound scholar in the science of Hadîth.
He was in the Shâfi’î Madhhab. He was the Qâdî of Samarkand.
[2] Kitâb-ut-Tibyân fî âdâb-i-hamala-t-il-Qur’ân was written by Imâm
Yahyâ bin Sheref Nevevî (or Nawawî) ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’,
(631 [1233 A.D.] – 676 [1277], Damascus.)
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