Virtue of Reciting the Qur’an:
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«مَنْ قَرَأَ حَرْفًا مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَلَهُ بِهِ حَسَنَةٌ، وَالْحَسَنَةُ بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا، لَا أَقُولُ: {الم} حَرْفٌ، وَلَكِنْ أَلِفٌ حَرْفٌ، وَلَامٌ حَرْفٌ، وَمِيمٌ حَرْفٌ».
English Translation:
ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allah, he will receive a good deed, and the good deed is multiplied ten times. I do not say that Alif-Lām-Mīm is one letter, but Alif is a letter, Lām is a letter, and Mīm is a letter.”
📖 Reference: Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī (Hadith 2910), graded ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ