This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth.

3178 — Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, saying: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, saying: Shuʿbah narrated to us with this same chain of transmission, a similar report.¹

3179 — Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī narrated to us, saying: al-Haytham ibn Rabīʿ narrated to us, saying: Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī narrated to me, from Qatādah, from Zurārah ibn Awfā, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, which deed is most beloved to Allah?" He said: "The one who is constantly alighting and departing." He said: "And what is the one who is constantly alighting and departing?" He said: "The one who goes from the beginning of the Qurʾān to its end; whenever he alights, he departs."²

This is a gharīb ḥadīth; we do not know it from Ibn ʿAbbās except through this chain of transmission.

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¹ Its chain of transmission is ṣaḥīḥ; see the preceding report.

² Its chain of transmission is ḍaʿīf; Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī — who is Ibn Bashīr — is ḍaʿīf.

It was also narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* (12783), al-Rāmhurmuzī in *al-Amthāl* p. 122, al-Ḥākim 1/568, and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (2001) and (2069).

It has a supporting witness from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, narrated by al-Ḥākim 1/569, which contains Mīqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī, who is ḍaʿīf, and we have not found a biography for the one who narrates from him.

The author of *al-Nihāyah* said: "The one who is constantly alighting and departing is the one who completes the recitation of the Qurʾān, then begins recitation anew from its beginning. He is likened to a traveler who reaches a way station and alights there, then begins his journey anew — that is, starts it. Likewise, the reciters of Mecca, when they complete the recitation of the Qurʾān, begin anew and recite the Fātiḥah and five verses from the beginning of Sūrat al-Baqarah up to {And those are the successful} [2:5], then they stop reciting, and they call that 'the one who is constantly alighting and departing' — that is, he completed the Qurʾān and began at its beginning without separating the two by any interval of time."