Is it appropriate to perform a khatm al-Quran by different people reading different juzes of the Quran?

Did such practice exist in the past and during the time of the Prophet (pbuh)? What is the evidence for the acceptance of the distribution of different juzes to different people? What is the place of this partnership of thawab and similar ones in the Quran and Sunnah?

Dear Brother / Sister,

We do not know any narrations about the practice of one khatm al-Quran read by many people. However, such a practice is permissible.

In the religion of Islam, we are advised to worship in congregation. The clearest evidence of it is the fact that prayers performed in congregation are given thawabs of twenty-seven fold compared to prayers performed individually. When three people form a congregation, each of them is given twenty-seven fold thawabs, not nine fold. For, luminous light and thawabs are not divided. As a matter of fact, when we send the thawab of the chapter of al-Fatiha or khatm al-Quran to one thousand people, the thawab is not divided into one thousand; each of them is given the same thawab. 

This reality is explained as follows through an example in “İhlâs Risalesi”, Risale-i Nur Collection:

"For example, there are four or five men. With the idea of sharing, one of them brings paraffin, another a wick, another the lamp, another the mantle, and the fifth matches; they assemble the lamp and light it. Each of them becomes the owner of a complete lamp. If each of those partners has a full-length mirror on a wall, he will be reflected in it together with the lamp and room, without deficiency or being split up.” (Lem’alar, Yirmi Birinci Lem'a (Flashes, Twenty-First Flash))

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