Recite the Qur’an in Your Houses

Yaḥyā – he is Ibn Abī Kathīr – narrated to us, he said: Ḥafṣ ibn ‘Inān al-Ḥanafī narrated to me that Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say:

“Indeed, the house would be spacious and comfortable to its occupants, the angels would visit it, the devils would stay away from it, and its goodness increases, if the Qur’an is recited in it.

And indeed, the house would be distressful upon its occupants, the angels would stay away from it, the devils would visit it, and its goodness decreases, if the Qur’an is not recited in it.”

Source: Musnad ad-Dārimī, Dār al-Mughnī, First Print, vol. 4, pg. 2086, Hadith No. 3352.

Translated by Abu ‘Umar ‘Abdul-Hakeem & Abu Tayyibah Sādiq.

حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هَانِئٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا حَرْبُ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى – هُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ – : حَدَّثَنِي حَفْصُ بْنُ عِنَانٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ كَانَ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ الْبَيْتَ لَيَتَّسِعُ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ ، وَتَحْضُرُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ، وَتَهْجُرُهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ ، وَيَكْثُرُ خَيْرُهُ إِنْ يُقْرَأَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ ، وَإِنَّ الْبَيْتَ لَيَضِيقُ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ ، وَتَهْجُرُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ، وَتَحْضُرُهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ ، وَيَقِلُّ خَيْرُهُ إِنْ لَا يُقْرَأَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ .

المصدر: مسند الدارمي، دار المغني للنشر والتوزيع، الطبعة الأولى، مجلد ٤، صـ 2086