Surah Al Baqarah

The Benefits of the two last verses of Surah Al Baqarah;

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad  is His slave and Messenger.

With regard to the last two verses of Surah Al-Baqarah being sent down from Paradise, then there is a Hadeeth with the wording: “I was given these last verses of Surah Al-Baqarah from a treasure under the Throne. None before me has been given them, and none after me will be given them.” This Hadeeth was narrated by An-Nasaa’i in As-Sunan Al-Kubra and Ibn Hibbaan in As-Saheeh. Al-Arna’oot said: “Its chain of narrators is Saheeh (sound) according to the conditions of a Saheeh Hadeeth.”

As regards these verses being written two thousand years before creation, then there is a Hadeeth with the wording: “Allaah wrote a book two thousand years before He created the heavens and the Earth, and in it are the last two verses of Surah Al-Baqarah. The devil will not come near a house in which they are recited for three nights." [Sunan At-Tirmithi and Musnad Ahmad]

As to what is mentioned in regard to being sufficient instead of Tahajjud prayer in the night, then there is a Hadeeth narrated by Abu Mas'ood Al-Badri  with the wording, “Whoever recites the last two verses from Surah Al- Baqarah, they will be sufficient for him.” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]

It was said that the meaning of ‘sufficient for him’ is that they are sufficient for him instead of night prayer; it was also said: sufficient as protection from the devil, and it was further said: sufficient as protection from calamities; or possibly all those meanings put together. This is said by Imaam An-Nawawi in Sharh Saheeh Muslim.