Volume 6, Book 60, Number 170:
Narrated Abu Said bin Al-Mu’alla:
While I was praying, Allah’s Apostle passed me and called me, but I did not go to him until I had
finished the prayer. Then I went to him, and he said, “What prevented you from coming to me?
Didn’t Allah say:– “O you who believe! Answer the call of Allah (by obeying Him) and His Apostle
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when He calls you?” He then said, “I will inform you of the greatest Sura in the Qur’an before I leave
(the mosque).” When Allah’s Apostle got ready to leave (the mosque), I reminded him. He said, “It is:
‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.’ (i.e. Surat-al-Fatiha) As-sab’a Al-Mathani (the seven re –
peatedly recited Verses).”