Taking Wages for Writing Mushafs

Hazrat Ayyub bin Aaidh says that I asked Hazrat Shu’bah about some people who take wages for writing copies of the Qur’an. What is this like? He replied, “You should not do this.”

Muhammad has declared it undesirable to make a financial contract for the transcription of the Mushaf.

Isa, the son of Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila, narrates that Abdur Rahman had a Christian from Hira write a manuscript (mushaf) for ninety dirhams.

Ibrahim considered it disliked to take wages for writing the Mushaf and, as evidence, he recited this verse: { فَوَیْلٌ لِلَّذِینَ یَکْتُبُونَ الْکِتَابَ بِأَیْدِیہِمْ }.

When Hazrat Alqamah intended to write a Mushaf, he sought help from his companions and they wrote it.

The father of Hazrat Ja'far says that there is no harm in taking wages for writing the Mushaf.

According to Ibrahim, it is disliked to take wages for writing the Mushaf.