The transmission of the reward of reciting the Qur'an and making supplication for the deceased
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does the recitation of the Qur'an and the donation of its reward to the deceased parents reach them? And likewise, does supplication reach them?
Answer:
There is no evidence for reciting the Qur'an and donating its reward to the deceased, so it is better not to do that. As for hiring someone to read it, this is invalid and not permissible by consensus, because one does not take a fee for worship. This reader only read for the sake of the fee, so he has no reward in that, as in the verse:[Hud 11:15]. However, if someone volunteers to read for the deceased with the intention that it is for the deceased, there is no evidence for this, and it is better to leave it.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does the recitation of the Qur'an and the donation of its reward to the deceased parents reach them? And likewise, does supplication reach them?
Answer:
There is no evidence for reciting the Qur'an and donating its reward to the deceased, so it is better not to do that. As for hiring someone to read it, this is invalid and not permissible by consensus, because one does not take a fee for worship. This reader only read for the sake of the fee, so he has no reward in that, as in the verse:
desires the life of this world and its adornments
يُرِيدُ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 119 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الشهادات / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (39:32)
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