Narrated Ibn Abbas: Allah's Apostle said, "Gabriel read the Qur'an to me in one way (i.e. dialect) and I continued asking him to read it in different ways till he read it in seven different ways."
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 54: Beginning of Creation, Hadith #442
Narrated Ibn Abbas: Allah's Apostle said, "Gabriel read the Qur'an to me in one way (i.e. dialect) and I continued asking him to read it in different ways till he read it in seven different ways."
This hadith is from the book of Beginning of Creation in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 442 in book 54 of volume 4.
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