ONE AYAT A DAY
اَللّٰهُ الصَّمَدُۚ
Allāhuṣ-ṣamad(u).
Allāh, the Eternal Refuge.
Which was revealed in MakkahThe Reason for the Revelation of this Surah and its VirtuesImam Ahmad recorded from Ubayy bin Ka`b that the idolators said to the Prophet , "O Muhammad! Tell us the lineage of your Lord." So Allah revealedبِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the MercifulSimilar was recorded by At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Jarir and they added in their narration that he said,الصَّمَدُ(As-Samad) is One Who does not give birth, nor was He born, because there is nothing that is born except that it will die, and there is nothing that dies except that it leaves behind inheritance, and indeed Allah does not die and He does not leave behind any inheritance.وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَّهُ كُفُواً أَحَدٌ(And there is none comparable to Him.) This means that there is none similar to Him, none equal to Him and there is nothing at all like Him." Ibn Abi Hatim also recorded it and At-Tirmidhi mentioned it as a Mursal narration. Then At-Tirmidhi said, "And this is the most correct."A Hadith on its VirtuesAl-Bukhari reported from `Amrah bint `Abdur-Rahman, who used to stay in the apartment of `A'ishah, the wife of the Prophet , that `A'ishah said, "The Prophet sent a man as the commander of a war expedition and he used to lead his companions in prayer with recitation (of the Qur'an). And he would complete his recitation with the recitation of `Say: He is Allah, On…