How Much Reward Will Each Person Receive If I Donate the Reward of Charity to Ten People?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

If I give charity and donate the reward to 10 people, does each person get one-tenth of the reward, or do they all get the full reward?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.

If one gives charity and donates the reward of it to 10 people, each person gets the full reward without diminishing the reward from the original giver of the charity. [Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]

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Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.

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