Volume 6, Book 61, Number 578:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Volume 6 – 1129 / 1700
SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 6 > BOOK 61: VIRTUES OF THE QUR’AN
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “There will appear some people among you whose prayer will make
you look down upon yours, and whose fasting will make you look down upon yours, but they will
recite the Qur’an which will not exceed their throats (they will not act on it) and they will go out of
Islam as an arrow goes out through the game whereupon the archer would examine the arrowhead
but see nothing, and look at the unfeathered arrow but see nothing, and look at the arrow feathers
but see nothing, and finally he suspects to find something in the lower part of the arrow.”