عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الخُدْرِيِّ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: «أَيَعْجِزُ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يَقْرَأَ ثُلُثَ القُرْآنِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ؟» فَشَقَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَقَالُوا: أَيُّنَا يُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ؟ فَقَالَ: «اللهُ الوَاحِدُ الصَّمَدُ ثُلُثُ القُرْآنِ».
Abu Sa‘īd al-Khudrī narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said to his companions:
1. Will any of you be unable to recite one-third of the Qur’an during a night?
2. They felt the task very hard and said: Who of us can manage that, Messenger of God? .3. He said: God, the One, the Eternal, the Absolute is one-third of the Qur’an.
The Prophet states that Surah 112, which starts with ‘Say: He is God, the One and only God’ is equal to one-third of the Qur’an. This because it focuses on making God’s oneness absolutely clear. Therefore, when a person recites it, it is as if he recited one-third of the Qur’an.
