Hadith 216

‘Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws)’ – The Imam-asws said regarding the Rewards of reciting Surah Al-Baqarah: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘And the parents of the reciter (of the Quran) will have a crown of prestige on their heads, the radiance of which will stretch to a travel distance of ten thousand years journey, and they will be clothed in such, fabrics the least of which would be better than a hundred thousand times of what is in the world, due to what would be included upon it from its goodness. ’
‘Then the reciter will get a written deed to a kingdom in his right hand and be given the (Permission for) eternal life in his left hand. He would read from his deed (given in) his right hand, ‘We have given you a great kingdom in the Gardens and made you among the friends of Muhammad-saww the leader of the Prophets-as, and Ali-asws the best of the successors-as and the Imams-asws after him-asws, the pious Chiefs. ’
And he would read from his deed in his left hand, ‘You are secured from the decline and the transference from this kingdom, and are sheltered from the death, and the illnesses and sufficed from the diseases and the pains, and would be kept aside from the envy of the envying ones, and plots of the plotters’. ‘Then it would be said to him: Recite and ascend, for your destination lies at the last Verse you would be reciting. ’ Then the parents will look at their clothes and crowns, and they will ask: ‘Our Lord-azwj! For us is this nobility, and although our deeds did not reach it? ’ The honourable Angels of Allah-azwj will say to them on behalf of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: ‘This is because both of you taught your children to read the Quran. [46]