The Messenger of Allah came out after he performed his purification and said, (Peace and Allah’s mercy be unto you, peace and Allah’s mercy be unto you, peace and Allah’s mercy be unto you.) He then said, (O `Abdullah bin Jabir! Should I inform you of the best Surah in the Qur’an) I said, `Yes, O Messenger of Allah!’ He said, (Read, `All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the existence,’ until you finish it.)” This Hadith has a good chain of narrators.

I went to the Masjid and sat there sad and depressed. The Messenger of Allah went while I was following him, until he arrived at his residence. So I said again, `Peace be unto you, O Messenger of Allah!’ Again, he did not answer me, so I said again, `Peace be unto you, O Messenger of Allah!’ Still he did not answer me. At-Tirmidhi said that this Hadith is Hasan Gharib.Īlso, Imam Ahmad recorded that Ibn Jabir said, “I went to the Messenger of Allah after he had poured water (for purification) and said, `Peace be unto you, O Messenger of Allah!’ He did not answer me.

This is the wording reported by An-Nasa’i.

It is the seven repeated verses and it is divided into two halves between Allah and His servant.) (Allah has never revealed in the Tawrah or the Injil anything similar to Umm Al-Qur’an.

Surah fatiha with translation