Those whom reciting the Quran does not benefit

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Some people of my Ummah will certainly recite the Qur'an, yet they will go out of Islam as an arrow passes right through the game."

Yusayr bin Amr said: I asked Sayyiduna Sahl bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him): "Did you ever hear the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mention these Khawarij?" He said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) pointed with his hand towards the east and said: "From here a group will emerge who will recite the Qur'an with their tongues, and the Qur'an will not go past their throats. They will go out of the religion as an arrow passes right through the game."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A people will come who will recite the Qur'an, but the Qur'an will never go past their throats. They will go out of the religion as an arrowhead passes right through the game."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In the last days some people will emerge who will be young in age and foolish in intellect. They will recite the Qur'an, but it will not go past their throats."

Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Some people will emerge from the direction of the east. They will recite the Qur'an, but it will not go down below their throats. They will exit the religion just as an arrow passes right through the game, and then they will not return to Islam."

Sayyiduna Ziyad bin Labid (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned something and then said: "That will be at the time when knowledge is taken away." The narrator said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), how will knowledge be taken away when we recite the Qur'an and teach it to our children, and they in turn will teach it to their children, and so the chain will continue until the Day of Resurrection?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May your mother lose you, O Ziyad! I used to consider you the man of the most understanding in Madinah! Do these Jews and Christians not read the Torah and the Gospel, and yet they do not act upon the teachings found in them?"

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He who regards as lawful what the Qur'an has made sacred has not believed in the Qur'an at all."

Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: then the narrator mentioned a hadith like the preceding one.