Abu Wail reported that a person named Nabik bin Sinan came to Abdullah (b. Masud) and said: Abu Abdul Rahman, how do you recite this word (alif) or (ya)? Would you read It as: min main ghaira asin or au min main ghaira yasin. (al-Quran, xlvii. 15)? Abdullah said: You (seem to) have memorised the whole of the Quran except this. He (again) said: I recite all the mufassal surahs in one rakah. Upon this Abdullah said: (You must have been reciting It) hastily like the recitation of poetry. Verily. There are people who recite the Quran, but it does not go down beyond their collar bones. It is (a fact with the Quran) that it is beneficial only when it settles in the heart and is rooted deeply in it. The best of (the acts) in prayer are bowing and prostration. I am quite aware of the occasions when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ combined together two surahs in every rakah. Abdullah then stood up and went out with Alqama following in his footstep. He said Ibn Numair had told him that the narration was like that:" A person belonging to Banu Bajila came to Abdullah," and he did not mention (the name of) Nahik bin Sinan.