The Inviolables of Allah and the Reward of Reciting and Learning It

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara|Volume 1|Book 5|Chapter 4

The Inviolables of Allah and the Reward of Reciting and Learning It

Hadith #3

[1550/3] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن صفوان، عن سعيد بن عبدالله الاعرج قال: سألت أبا عبدالله عليه السلام عن الرجل يقرأ القرآن ثم ينساه ثم يقرأه ثم ينساه أعليه فيه حرج؟ فقال: لا

[3/1550] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Safwan from Sa’id al-A’raj who said: I asked Aba Abdillah about a man who memorizes the Qur’an, then he forgets it, then he memorizes it (again), then he forgets it, is there on him any sin because of this? He (i.e. the Imam) said: No

Shaykh Asif al-Mohseni
Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

I say: The reconciliation of this report with others that came before that cite grave consequence for forgetting the Qur’an is probably because what is meant with ‘forgetting’ in the latter is abandoning acting upon its contents, or even if taken literally then forgetting due to neglect, on the other hand, there is in this report an indication that the man in question is striving to memorize the Qur’an but fails repeatedly because of an involuntary loss of memory due to some natural factors.
Author: Translator