Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3489 — The virtue of the reciters

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recited the Qur'an and acted upon the commands in it, and died while adhering to the community (jama'ah) of the Muslims, will be raised on the Day of Resurrection with the noble and righteous angels. Whoever recites the Qur'an while it keeps slipping from his mind (that is, he finds it hard to retain), Allah Almighty will give him double reward. And whoever is very eager to learn the Qur'an but does not have full ability (owing to weak memory), yet still does not abandon it, Allah Almighty will raise him with the honoured people of his family; and they will be given superiority over all creatures just as eagles have superiority over other birds, and just as a flowing spring in a lush meadow has superiority over the land around it. Then a caller will call out: 'Where are those whom tending livestock did not distract from reciting My Book?' So they will stand up, and each one of them will be adorned with the crown of honour and nobility, and will be given goodness and blessing in his right hand and the warrant of eternity in his left. Then his parents, provided they are Muslims, will be clothed in fine garments better than the world and all its splendours. They will both say (in wonder): 'On what basis have we been given this honour, when our deeds were not such as to reach this station?' And they will be answered: 'Because your child used to recite the Qur'an.'"
This chain is muttasil (connected), but the narrator Suwayd bin Abd al-Aziz is da'if (weak) in narrating hadith.