Surah Ya-Sin takes about 15 minutes to recite aloud, anywhere from 10 to 24 minutes depending on the reciter’s pace. Ya-Sin (often spelled Yasin or Yaseen) is 83 ayat on pages 440 to 445 of the Madani mushaf, a little under six pages.
That 15 is the middle of the 11 full recordings we timed. Saud Ash-Shuraym’s brisk murattal gets through it in about 10 minutes; a slow, careful murattal like Husary’s takes nearer 24. If you read it after Fajr, set aside 20 minutes and you’ll finish at Alafasy’s pace with a couple to spare.
At a glance
- Time to recite: about 15 minutes, 10 to 24 depending on the reciter.
- Ayat: 83. It’s surah 36, revealed in Makkah.
- Pages: 440 to 445 of the 604-page Madani mushaf, 84 lines in all.
- Juz: ayat 1 to 27 in juz 22; juz 23 starts at 36:28.
- Per page: under 2 minutes at a fast pace, about 3 at a steady one, a little over 4 at a slow one.
- Sajdah: none.
How long does Surah Yasin take with each reciter?
These are our own timings of full-surah murattal recordings (the standard, unhurried style), listed fastest first. Times include the basmala where the recording has one.
| Reciter | Ya-Sin (min:sec) |
|---|---|
| Saud Ash-Shuraym | 10:14 |
| Abdur-Rahman As-Sudais | 12:30 |
| Abu Bakr Ash-Shatri | 14:01 |
| Hani Ar-Rifai | 14:13 |
| Abdul Basit Abdus-Samad | 14:27 |
| Yasser Ad-Dossari | 15:15 |
| Khalifah At-Taniji | 15:51 |
| Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi | 15:52 |
| Mishary Alafasy | 17:36 |
| Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary | 23:47 |
| Al-Husary, teaching recording | 26:22 |
Ad-Dossari sits right in the middle at 15:15. The jump at the bottom of the table comes from pace and pauses: Husary gives every madd its full length and leaves clear gaps between ayat. His teaching (muallim) recording runs longer still because it leaves about six seconds after each ayah for you to repeat.
Silent reading is usually quicker than any of these, and someone still sounding out the words will be slower than Husary. We haven’t measured either, so treat the table as a guide to reciting aloud. For the same timings across every surah and juz, see how long it takes to recite each surah.
How long is each page?
If you’d like to split Ya-Sin across the day, or read a page between other things, this is where each page ends in three recordings. The times are cumulative, so Alafasy finishes page 442 at the 8½ minute mark.
| Page | Ayat | Shuraym | Alafasy | Husary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 440 | 1-12 | 1:12 | 2:12 | 2:41 |
| 441 | 13-27 | 3:03 | 5:32 | 6:56 |
| 442 | 28-40 | 4:54 | 8:30 | 11:02 |
| 443 | 41-54 | 6:45 | 11:35 | 15:30 |
| 444 | 55-70 | 8:38 | 14:44 | 19:42 |
| 445 | 71-83 | 10:14 | 17:36 | 23:47 |
Every page in Ya-Sin opens on a fresh ayah, which makes it easy to stop and pick up again. Page 440 is the short one. Its first three lines are the end of Surah Fatir, then come the surah title and basmala, so only 10 lines belong to Ya-Sin. Pages 441 to 444 are full 15-line pages, and page 445 has 14, with the heading of As-Saffat on its last line.
Those 84 lines work out to 5.6 of the mushaf’s 604 pages, a little under 1% of the Quran. You’ll see four or five pages quoted online, but in the 15-line Madani mushaf it fills most of six.
Which juz is Surah Yasin in?
Two of them, because Ya-Sin crosses a juz boundary. The first 27 ayat, with the story of the town and the man who came running, sit at the end of juz 22. Juz 23 begins at ayah 28, on the first line of page 442, where the Uthmani text carries the ۞ marker:
۞ وَمَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ مِن جُندٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا كُنَّا مُنزِلِينَ
“And We did not send down upon his people after him any soldiers from the heaven, nor would We have done so.”
Ya-Sin 36:28, Saheeh International translation. Compare translations on quran.com
So the juz 22 part is short. Alafasy recites it in 5½ minutes, and the remaining 56 ayat take him about 12. If you’re reading by juz, our guide to the 30 juz of the Quran shows where each one starts.
How long does it take to read Yaseen 7 or 41 times?
Some families read Ya-Sin 7 or 41 times. Here’s the total at Shuraym’s, Alafasy’s and Husary’s pace.
| Reciter | Once | 7 times | 41 times |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shuraym | 10:14 | 1h 12m | 7h 00m |
| Alafasy | 17:36 | 2h 03m | 12h 02m |
| Husary | 23:47 | 2h 46m | 16h 15m |
Forty-one readings is a long day at any pace. When a group shares the readings, divide the total by the number of people reading.
On the practice itself, scholars differ. An Islamweb fatwa says it knows of no evidence for reading Ya-Sin a set number of times for a need, and calls the practice an innovation (Fatwa 87706). A Hanafi answer published on islamqa.org allows it as long as nobody treats the number as obligatory or part of the religion. Neither the 7 nor the 41 comes from an authentic hadith we could find. Ask a scholar you trust if it matters for your family.
Is Ya-Sin the heart of the Quran?
That description comes from a narration in Jami’ at-Tirmidhi 2887, and it’s weak. At-Tirmidhi himself pointed out that one narrator in its chain is unknown. Darussalam grades it da’if (weak), and al-Albani went further and called it fabricated.
The narration telling people to recite Ya-Sin over the dying, in Sunan Abi Dawud 3121, is disputed. Al-Daraqutni, Ibn al-Qattan and al-Nawawi weakened its chain, while Ibn Hibban and al-Hakim accepted it.
None of that makes Ya-Sin less worth reading. Reciting it on any day is reciting the Quran, and that needs no extra narration to back it.
How fast should you recite Ya-Sin?
The stopwatch is the least important part. Allah asks for recitation with care:
“Or add to it, and recite the Qur’ān with measured recitation.”
Al-Muzzammil 73:4, Saheeh International translation. Compare translations on quran.com
Shuraym’s 10 minutes is the pace of a trained imam with years of practice behind it. If you push yourself to match it, you’ll usually start clipping the long vowels and the ghunnah. Twenty unhurried minutes with the words clear is a better morning than ten rushed ones. Choose the pace you can hold correctly, then let it speed up on its own as the surah gets familiar.
How long does it take to memorize Yasin?
Learning it by heart takes longer. At five lines a day, the 84 lines come to about 17 days, and at half a page a day it’s closer to 12. The full breakdown, with paces and revision time, is in how long it takes to memorize Surah Ya-Sin.
Once you’ve read along a few times, see how much you know without looking. Quran Memorizer’s mushaf uses the same 604-page Madani layout, so pages 440 to 445 look the way they do in print. You can listen to a recitation and follow along, and with Premium you can hide 25%, 50%, 75% or the whole page and recite from memory. If you’d rather be quizzed, try the free hifz test on the web.
Questions people ask
How many minutes is Surah Yasin?
About 15 minutes recited aloud. Across the 11 full recordings we timed, it runs from 10 minutes 14 seconds (Saud Ash-Shuraym) to 23 minutes 47 seconds (Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary). Mishary Alafasy takes 17 minutes 36 seconds.
How many pages is Surah Yasin?
Six pages of the 604-page Madani mushaf, pages 440 to 445. It’s 84 lines of text, so a little under six full pages, because it starts partway down page 440 and stops one line short of the end of page 445.
Which juz is Surah Yasin in?
Two of them. Ayat 1 to 27 are in juz 22, and juz 23 begins at ayah 28, the first line of page 442. Most of the surah, 56 of its 83 ayat, is in juz 23.
How many mubeen are in Surah Yasin?
The word mubeen (clear) closes 7 ayat in Ya-Sin: 36:12, 17, 24, 47, 60, 69 and 77. Some families pause for du’a at each one. That’s a custom; we didn’t find an authentic hadith behind it.
Is Surah Yasin the heart of the Quran?
The narration that calls it the heart of the Quran is in Jami’ at-Tirmidhi 2887, and it’s graded weak. Reading Ya-Sin is still reading the Quran, so it needs no extra narration to be worthwhile.
How long does it take to recite Surah Yaseen 41 times?
Between 7 hours (at Shuraym’s pace) and about 16 and a quarter hours (at Husary’s). At Alafasy’s steady pace it’s about 12 hours. Scholars differ on reading it a fixed number of times, and the counts don’t come from an authentic hadith we could find.
Revising Ya-Sin
Once you’ve memorized Ya-Sin, reciting it from memory once a week takes 15 to 20 minutes, which makes it an easy fit for your manzil. If you memorized it recently, go over it more often for the first month or two. The per-page table above lets you split it into three-minute pieces on busy days.
Watch 36:29 and 36:53. Both open with the same words, in kanat illa sayhatan wahidatan, and 36:49 carries sayhatan wahidatan too, so it’s easy to jump from one to another. Our Ya-Sin memorization guide walks through those tricky spots, and Quran Memorizer’s Daily Review (Premium) brings your weaker ayat back first.
Start with page 440 tomorrow after Fajr. It’s ten lines and about two minutes.
