Volume 9, Book 93, Number 582:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
(regarding the Verse):– ‘Neither say your prayer aloud, nor say it in a low tone.’ (17.110) This
Verse was revealed while Allah’s Apostle was hiding himself in Mecca, and when he raised his voice
while reciting the Qur’an, the pagans would hear him and abuse the Qur’an and its Revealer and to
the one who brought it. So Allah said:–
‘Neither say your prayer aloud, nor say it in a low tone.’ (17.110) That is, ‘Do not say your prayer
so loudly that the pagans can hear you, nor say it in such a low tone that your companions do not
hear you.’ But seek a middle course between those (extremes), i.e., let your companions hear, but do
not relate the Qur’an loudly, so that they may learn it from you.
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