Does the listener of the Qur'an receive the same reward as the reciter? We ask for clarification.

The questioner : Listening to the Qur'an and paying attention to it, I mean, does the listener and the one who is attentive to the recitation receive the same reward as the reciter, who, I mean, does not recite well but reads from the mushaf? I do not know, so please clarify this issue for us!

The Shaykh : The answer to this question is: the hadith in al-Bukhari in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Abu, or Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, or both of them together in two different narrations, and he said to him: . He said: Shall I recite the Qur'an to you, and it was revealed to you?! He said: . So if the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) loved to hear it from someone else, and this other person, if the expression is correct—and there is disagreement on this point from a linguistic perspective—is far below the Messenger (peace be upon him) in stages, yet he said: . So the word "love" seems to mean that the best of my recitation is my listening to the recitation of someone else. So what can you say if the reciter and the listener are, I mean, equals who are similar, or one of them is better than the other? But there is a great difference between the Messenger (peace be upon him), who loved to hear it from someone else, and the reciter who recites to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, it appears that listening with the intention of listening and reflection is better than reciting.

The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!!

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : Because, glory be to Allah, some people cite in the hadith: !

The Shaykh : Alam, yes, and this comes to mind, but this is said: if one does not keep in mind the hadith I mentioned earlier.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

Another questioner : By Allah, O Shaykh, a question: The brothers, I mean, there is in Jeddah, we do not know evidence for it, if a person enters the mosque and the imam is prostrating, the imam is prostrating and he is, of course, late, so many people remain standing, saying to you, finish this rak'ah, we did not catch it, we remain standing until the imam?!

The Shaykh : Be modest, O Shaykh, be modest!!
The student : Finish, I, when I see something and it does not please me, the first time I see it, no, may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : As long as you have tasted it, it pleases you!
The student : By Allah, O Shaykh, I know by the smell.
Another student: And I am like you... .

The questioner : The fatwa is not correct, I will mention it to you so that I retract it, I said to them: The Messenger (peace be upon him) says.