The ruling on taking a fee for ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)

Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible to take a fee or something else for ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)? And is there evidence for its permissibility?

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. If the ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) is done with the Qur'an or with supplications, it is permissible, and there is no harm in the one performing the ruqyah taking some money for it. This is based on the story of the companions who were traveling and stopped at a tribe of the Arabs. They invited them to stay, but they did not host them. So the chief of this tribe came to these companions and asked them for a reciter to perform ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) for their sick person. They said, "You did not help us, but we do not perform ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) except for a fee." So they gave them a flock of sheep. One of the companions went and recited Surat al-Fatihah for him, and the man was cured immediately, as if he had been untied from a rope. Then they divided the flock, but they said, "We will not use it until we ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So they asked him about that and about this action. He said, "Take a share with us." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to share with them in order to settle their minds and to show them that this is a matter of ignorance. And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This indicates that the one who performs ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) by reciting from the Qur'an or from supplications, and does not use anything from what is forbidden or from shirk (associating partners with Allah), may take some money for his work. If he does it for the sake of Allah, that is better. And if he takes some money, that is permissible. Praise be to Allah. Yes.
Likewise, regarding teaching the Qur'an, it is permissible on the correct view for him to take a fee for it, except that Shaykh Taqi al-Din says he should take it only if he needs it. If he needs it, he takes it. But if he does not need it, he teaches the Qur'an for free, because this is an act of devotion and a righteous deed. He should have a sincere intention for it for Allah the Exalted and Majestic. But if he needs it and has nothing to spend on himself or his children, and if he were to go work, he would stop teaching, then his teaching and taking what suits his condition is a matter we do not consider to be wrong.