The 365 · Sunnah · Day 18 · Morning
A Daily Qur'an Portion (Wird al-Qur'ān)
The hadith
مَنْ نَامَ عَنْ حِزْبِهِ أَوْ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، فَقَرَأَهُ فِيمَا بَيْنَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ وَصَلَاةِ الظُّهْرِ، كُتِبَ لَهُ كَأَنَّمَا قَرَأَهُ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ
The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Whoever sleeps through his hizb (daily Qur'an portion) or any part of it, and reads it between Fajr and Zuhr, it will be recorded for him as if he read it during the night.' Sahih Muslim 747, narrated by 'Umar ibn al-Khattab ra.
Svenska: Profeten ﷺ sade: 'Den som sover och missar sin hizb (dagliga Koran-portion) eller delar av den, och läser den mellan Fajr och Zuhr, det kommer att skrivas åt honom som om han läste den om natten.'
Sahih Muslim 747 ('Umar ibn al-Khattab, the morning recovery hadith); Sahih Bukhari and Muslim narrations on the Companions' hizb practices
The story
The Companions had different hizb amounts. Some completed the Qur'an in three days (a practice the Prophet ﷺ later capped at no less than three days, since less than that did not allow proper reflection). Some completed it in seven days. 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr was so eager that the Prophet ﷺ slowed him to thirty days. The principle: find your sustainable hizb and stick to it daily.
Why it's here
The Prophet ﷺ structured the believer's relationship with the Qur'an around the daily hizb (portion). The amount varies by capacity (a juz' a day, half a juz', a few pages, a few verses), but the principle is daily contact. The hadith above is striking because it provides a recovery mechanism: if you missed your night hizb, the morning catches it. Allah credits the morning recovery as if it were the night recitation.
Try it today
1. Set a sustainable daily portion: a juz', half a juz', a tenth (about 4 pages), or even one page. Sustainability matters more than size.
2. Read at the same time each day (morning preferred, after Fajr or post-ishraq).
3. If you miss the morning, the hadith provides the recovery: read between Fajr and Zuhr next time. The reward is preserved.
4. Track the cycle: how many days to complete a juz'; how many to complete the Qur'an.
In your day
A page of Qur'an a day completes the Qur'an in roughly 600 days (~1.6 years). Half a juz' a day completes it in 60 days. A juz' a day completes it in 30 days (a Ramadan-style cycle, year-round). Pick a pace; commit; stick.
A reflection to carry
The daily Quran portion (wird): a fixed daily allocation of Quran-recitation. The Prophet ﷺ: 'Whoever sleeps without reading his hizb (daily portion), or part of it, then reads it between Fajr and Ẓuhr, it will be recorded as if he read it during the night.' (Muslim 747.)
Read the longer reflection
The Companions had structural daily allocations: ʿUthmān would complete the Quran in seven nights; ibn Masʿūd in three; the more typical cadence was completion in 30 days (one juzʺ per day). The classical scholars: every believer should have a structural wird, however small. Cure: choose a sustainable daily allocation (one page, two pages, half a juzʺ, full juzʺ); fix the time (after Fajr, after ʿAṣr, before sleep); make it non-negotiable; if missed, make up before Fajr the following day. Modern Muslims often have no wird; the discipline is structural establishment of the daily relationship with the Quran.
Sources: Sahih Muslim, Sahih Bukhari. The Qur'an and its translation are verified; the scholarship is retold faithfully in our own words and credited to its sources, never reproduced verbatim.
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