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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible to carry out the bequest of one who bequeathed that the mushaf be buried with him?

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Question:
I ask Allah to do you good. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: There is a young man who made a bequest that when he is buried, the Qur'an should be buried with him. What is the ruling on this bequest?

Answer:
It is not buried. This bequest is not carried out. It is not permissible to carry it out, and it is not permissible to bury the Qur'an with the deceased or with the funeral. This is not carried out because it is a humiliation of the Qur'an, and because this is a matter of bid'ah (religious innovation). A person is not benefited by anything except his deeds, even if he has a hundred mushafs buried with him; he is only benefited by the deeds he performed. If he acted in accordance with this Qur'an, he will receive the reward from Allah the Exalted: the good reward and bliss, even if the Qur'an is not buried with him. And if he was upon bad deeds, then even if the Qur'an is buried with him, it will not benefit him in any way. Yes, meaning, when he was alive in this world, he was turning away from the Qur'an, and when he died, he took the Qur'an with him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [715- 4717] هل تنفذ وصية من أوصى بدفن المصحف معه؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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