A wage for recitation (qira’a)

Question

Question: From the following passage of “‘Alamgiri” (vol. 3, p. 526), which is in the Book of Hire (Kitab al-Ijara): [ar]واختلفوا في الاستئجار على قراءة القرآن على القبر مدة معلومة، قال بعضهم: لا يجوز، وقال بعضهم: يجوز، وهو المختار[/ar] “They differed on hiring for the recitation of the Qur’an at a grave for a known period: some said it is not permissible, and some said it is permissible, and this is the preferred view”, it appears that a wage for acts of obedience is permissible, whereas the explicit statements…

Answer

In this issue the author of “al-Siraj al-Wahhaj” and “al-Jawhara al-Nayyira” made a slip of the pen (sabq qalam). The original issue was hiring for teaching the Qur’an (al-isti’jar ‘ala ta‘lim al-Qur’an), on which the jurists differed: the early ones prohibited it, and the later mujtahids permitted it.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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