What is the meaning of "his sleeping past the Qur'an" in the hadith about the punishment for one who misses prayer, and is reading the Qur'an at night obligatory?
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The referred to is: "As for the one whose head is crushed with a stone, he is the one who takes the Qur'an but then rejects it, and sleeps through the obligatory prayers," narrated by Al-Bukhari. The hadith does not mention sleeping through the Qur'an; rather, it warns against sleeping through the obligatory prayers and against rejecting the Qur'an by abandoning its memorization and practice. Reciting the Qur'an at night is not obligatory; it is a recommended , and there is no sin upon one who sleeps through it, but he misses out on a great reward.
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