A man who leads people in prayer in Ramadan and is given something

Abu Iyas Mu'awiyah bin Qurrah says: I was staying as a guest with Amr bin al-Nu'man bin Muqarrin. When the month of Ramadan came, a man came to him from Mus'ab bin al-Zubayr with two thousand dirhams and said: The Amir sends you greetings of peace and says: We have given this gift from ourselves to every honoured reciter; meet your needs this month with this money. Amr said to him: Convey our greetings of peace to your Amir and tell him as well: By Allah, we did not recite the Qur'an to gain the world. Saying this, he returned the money to him.

Abu Ishaq says that Abdullah bin Ma'qil led the people in the tarawih in Ramadan. On the day of Eid al-Fitr, Ubaydullah bin Ziyad sent him a suit of clothes and five hundred dirhams. He returned these things and said: We do not take wages for the Qur'an.

Al-Qasim bin Abd al-Rahman said: No wage is to be taken for (reciting) the Qur'an.

Jarir narrates from a man that Sa'id bin Jubayr led the people in the Tarawih prayer, and al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf sent him a cap or garment (burnus), which he accepted.

Zadhan said: Whoever recites the Qur'an to earn his food by it will come on the Day of Resurrection in such a state that there will be only bone on his face, with no flesh.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Shibl (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Recite the Qur'an, and do not make the Qur'an a means of livelihood, do not seek abundance of wealth through it, do not go beyond the limits of the Qur'an in its wording and meaning, and do not turn away from the Qur'an."

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Recite the Qur'an and ask Allah by means of the Qur'an, for a people are coming who will ask people for things by means of the Qur'an.