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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on reciting the entire Qur'an in the obligatory prayers for the purpose of review

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Question:
What is the ruling on reciting the Qur'an in the obligatory prayers from the beginning of the mushaf to the end for the sake of review?

Answer:
This has not been reported. It has not been reported in the Sunnah of the Imam regarding the obligatory prayers that one should start the Qur'an from the beginning and write it down now; he writes it down. This is in the tarawih, this was reported in the tarawih, in the night prayer. As for the obligatory prayers, this has not been reported in them.
And it is not befitting for us to innovate something, and then the Sunnah is boasted of and people think it is obligatory, or they think it is obligatory. It is not befitting for us to start things that were not reported from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Perhaps this will cause people embarrassment; they think they must recite the entire Qur'an, and they are not able to do this. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says, "So recite what is easy for you," and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
recite whatever is easy for him of the Quranيَقْرَأَ مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1136Sahih (Darussalam)
. So the tarawih was, in the beginning, there was ease in it. But as time passed and the number of imams who do it increased, people think that this will not relieve them in the future, and the one who causes this is the one who started this thing from the beginning. The religion is ease, and we do not do anything except what has evidence for it. And as long as the matter is made easy and simple for people, we go and start something for them that is difficult for them.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/28 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:25:15)

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