Completing the Qur’an in One Night

Question

Zayd said: “One person cannot carry out the recitation of the Holy Qur’an in one night; if someone has done [so], he has acted against the sunna. The command is to recite the Holy Qur’an with tartil (measured recitation); whoever recited [the Qur’an] in one night and had people listen to it did not fulfil the right of the Qur’an — this is against the sunna.

Answer

In the noble hadith, completing the Holy Qur’an in less than three nights has been disapproved: in it there is usually no opportunity for full reflection (tadabbur). Despite this, reciting [the whole Qur’an] in less than three nights — indeed in one night, indeed in a single rak‘a — is transmitted from the noble Companions ﵃ and many great awliya’; indeed, completing the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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