Al-Tawheed Chapter (Monotheism)

Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Mohammad bin Marwan reported from Imam Abou Jaa'far (Pbuh) that he said: "He is blessed he who recited Al-Tawheed Chapter. He and his family are blessed he who recites it twice. If he recited it three times, he, his family and his neighbors are blessed. If he recited it twelve times, Allah would build him twelve thousand castles in heaven. The writers say: "Let us go to the castles of our brother to look at it." For he who recites it one hundred times, sins of twenty five years are remitted for him except sins of blood and money. He who recited it four hundred times is rewarded with the rewards of four hundred martyrs all of them had their horses stabbed and their blood spilled. He who recites it one thousand times during in one day shall never die unless he sees his place in heaven."

Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Al-Soukuni reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) prayed on the dead body of Sa'ed bin Ma'adh. He (Pbuhp) said: "He had seventy thousand angels praying upon him including Jibraeel." The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said to Jibraeel: "O Jibraeel, why he deserved to be prayed upon him by you?" Jibraeel said: "Because he used to recite Al-Tawheed Chapter when standing, sitting, riding, walking, going and coming.""

Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Abi Baker Al-Hadrami reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "He who believed in Allah and the last day must never stop reciting Al-Tawheed Chapter after every prayer. Allah will gather all the good of Donia and the Hereafter and he who does that. Allah will also forgive him, his parents and what they begot."

Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Abdellah bin Talha reported that the Imam Jaa'far Al-Sadiq (Pbuh) said: " The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: "For he who recites Al-Tawheed Chapter one hundred times on his bed before sleep, Allah shall forgive the sins of fifty years for him."

Ibn Babawaih states in Al-Amali Book: Salman reported from the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) that he said: "Reciting Al-Tawheed Chapter once is equivalent to one third of Quran. Reciting Al-Tawheed Chapter twice is equivalent to two thirds of Quran. Reciting it trice is as if one recited the entire Quran."

Al-Tawheed Book: Abou Baseer reported from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: "Reciting Al-Tawheed Chapter is equivalent to reciting one third of Quran, of Tawrat, of Injeel and of Zabour."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Hafes bin Ghayath said: "I heard Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) say to a man: "Do you love to stay in Donia?" He said: "Yes?" The Imam (Pbuh): "Why?" He said: "To recite Al-Tawheed Chapter." So I said nothing to him. Then the Imam (Pbuh) said to me after a while: "When one of our loyal followers dies without knowing how to recite Quran, he is taught Quran in his grave so that Allah raises him in ranks. It is that the ranks of heaven are as much as the number of verses of Quran. They say to the one who recites Quran: "Recite and rise.""

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Abdellah bin Hay reported that he heard Ameer Elmo'mineen (Pbuh) say: "He who recites Al-Tawheed chapter after the dawn prayer shall not sin in that day even against the will of Satan."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Mansour bin Hazim reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "He who finishes his day praying five prayers without reciting Al-Tawheed in any of them will be told: "O servant of Allah, you didn’t pray."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Is-haq bin Ammar reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "He who spends a week without reciting Al-Tawheed chapter and then dies, he dies adopting the religion of Abi Lahab."

Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Khalid Al-Barqi states in Al-Mahasin Book: Omran bin Al-Bukhturi reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "Reciting Al-Tawheed Chapter annuls poverty, strengthens the pillars of the house and benefits the neighbors of he who recites it."

Al-Qotb Al-Rawandy states in Lub Al-Albab Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: "He who recites Al-Tawheed Chapter is cured from hypocrisy and he earns the mercy of being committed to sincerity and loyalty."

Al-Qotb Al-Rawandy states in Lub Al-Albab Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: "For he who recites Al-Tawheed Chapter after the dawn prayer, Allah shall remit sins of a year for him, raise him one thousand ranks and that are wider than Donia in seventy times."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: " For he who recites Al-Tawheed chapter once, Allah shall marry him to seven hundred angelic-maids. For he who recites it twice, Allah shall remit all his sins, the past and the coming ones and he is considered as if he freed one million persons from the descendents of Ismaeel, as if he remained in a battle in the cause of Allah for two million years and as if he performed pilgrimage seven hundred times. If he died in that day or night he dies as a martyr. When one recites it three times, he is considered as if he recited all the books that Allah descended to His prophets and as if he fasted and worshiped all his life."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: " For he who recites it, Allah shall give him Lights in the count of its verses in the hereafter to lighten his heaven. He who recites it one hundred times shall see his home in heaven before he leaves Donia. He is given the rewards of the conduct of fifty prophets and given a clearance from Hell."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: " It is four verses. For he who recites it with contemplation shall receive four glad tidings from Allah one the time of death, in the grave, during resurrection and on Al-Sirat till he goes to heaven to abide therein immortally. His prayer is accepted he who recited Al-Tawheed once."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: " To everything there is a light and the light of Quran is Al-Tawheed Chapter."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: " It is the protector. It protects from torment in grave and the blows of hell."

Khawas Al-Quran Book: The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: "He who recites this chapter and listens to it Allah will love. He is saved he who is loved by Allah. Reciting it for graves has a lot of rewards and it is a shield from every illness."

Khawas Al-Quran Book: Imam Sadiq (Pbuh) said: "Reciting it and giving its rewards for the dead gives you all the rewards of Quran. Reciting it cures from conjunctivitis by the power of Allah."

Ibn Babawaih states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Haroun bin Kharija reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: " He who gets sick and doesn’t recite Al-Tawheed Chapter during his sickness and then dies he goes to hell."

The two sons of Bistam state in Tob Al-A'imma Book: Salama bin Mahraz said that he heard Imam Abou Jaa'far (Pbuh) say: "He who isn’t cured by Al-Fatiha and Al-Tawheed chapters shall never be cured by anything else. These two chapters cure from every illness."

Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Amr bin Yazeed reported from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: " He who recites Al-Tawheed Chapter ten times while he is leaving his house will still be protected and guarded by Allah till he comes back to his house."

Al-Sheikh Al-Sadouq states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Ibrahim bin Mahzam reported that Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) said: "Setting Al-Tawheed as a shield between one and a tyrant protects him from before him, behind him, his right and his light by the protection of Allah. When one does that, Allah grants him plenty of goodness and spares him from evilness."

Al-Sheikh Al-Sadouq states in Thawab Al-A'amal Book: Qais bin Rabee reported from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: "Allah protects him in his home and the homes around him he who recites Al-Tawheed chapter eleven times when he goes to bed."