607. Writing On The Mus-haf

By Asma Bint Shameem

Generally speaking, it’s not encouraged to write in the Mus-haf. But you can write on the side IF there’s a NEED. 

You can also write in pencil instead of using a pen or marker etc., so that you can erase it later. 

Or you can use “sticky notes” or other removable ‘markers’. 

And although some scholars were very strict about writing “anything” in the Mus-haf, some scholars allowed it. 

Shaykh Saalih bin Muhammad al-Luhaydaan said:

“Have you not seen published books where the explanation are in the margins of the Mushaf? Tafsir Jalaalayn is in the margins of the Mushaf, Tafsir Baydaawi is in the margins of the Mushaf, and those other than these.

[There is no issue with writing in the Mushaf] so long as they are written in the margins and does not resemble the writing of the Noble Qur’an.”

And Allaah knows best