Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيَّ يَقُولُ خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَوْمًا وَنَحْنُ فِي الصُّفَّةِ فَقَالَ أَيُّكُمْ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَغْدُوَ إِلَى بُطْحَانَ أَوْ الْعَقِيقِ فَيَأْتِيَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ بِنَاقَتَيْنِ كَوْمَاوَيْنِ زَهْرَاوَيْنِ فَيَأْخُذَهُمَا فِي غَيْرِ إِثْمٍ وَلَا قَطْعِ رَحِمٍ قَالَ قُلْنَا كُلُّنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يُحِبُّ ذَلِكَ قَالَ فَلَأَنْ يَغْدُوَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَيَتَعَلَّمَ آيَتَيْنِ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ نَاقَتَيْنِ وَثَلَاثٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ وَأَرْبَعٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَرْبَعٍ وَمِنْ أَعْدَادِهِنَّ مِنْ الْإِبِلِ.
English Translation
Abu Abd al-Rahman told us, Musa ibn Ali told us, who said: I heard my father say: I heard Uqbah ibn Amir al-Juhani say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came out to us one day while we were on the platform (al-Suffah), and said: Which of you would like to go out every morning to Buthan or al-Aqiq and bring back two large, fine-humped she-camels every day without incurring any sin or severing family ties? We said: All of us would like that, O Messenger of Allah. He said: Then for one of you to go out to the mosque in the morning and learn two verses from the Book of Allah is better for him than two she-camels, and three verses better than three, and four better than four, and so on according to their number, better than camels.