Are the healing recitation (khatmat ash-shifa), the recitation of the Holy Quran (khatmat al-Qur'an al-kareem), and some supplications (du'as) performed by exegetes (mufassirun) for the sick permissible in Islam?

It is not permissible to hire someone to recite the Quran, and it is forbidden for the hired person to take payment for his recitation. There is no reward for such a recitation because it is a blameworthy and forbidden innovation. Ahmad narrated from the Prophet, peace be upon him: "Recite the Quran, do not exaggerate in it, nor abandon it, nor eat by it, nor seek much wealth by it." And from Imran ibn Husayn: "Recite the Quran and ask Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, through it, for after you will come people who recite the Quran and ask people by it." Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah held that hiring someone for recitation is a reciprocal exchange with no reward in it, and nothing from it reaches the deceased. He also stated that none of the imams advocated hiring for mere recitation. The Permanent Committee stated that reciting the Quran is a purely physical act of worship for which it is impermissible to take or give payment, and there is no reward in it; both the receiver and the giver are sinful. What is prescribed is to perform Ruqyah for the sick by reciting Al-Fatihah, Al-Mu'awwidhat (Surahs Al-Falaq and An-Nas), and supplication, for these are among the greatest verses of healing.