Is it permissible for a Muslim to dedicate the reward of reciting the Qur'an to a deceased person?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it permissible for a Muslim to recite the Qur'an and dedicate the reward of the recitation to his parents?

Answer:
There is no evidence for this. The default is that a person's deed is for him, , and that a person is not benefited by anything except his own deed, except for what has evidence that another person's deed benefits someone else, such as supplication, such as charity, such as Hajj and 'Umrah. There is evidence that these benefit when their reward is gifted to others, whether living or dead. As for anything other than this, there is no evidence for it, so it remains on the default .