Tawassul After the Passing of the Prophet ﷺ and the Practice of the Companions

Question

The narration of Hazrat ‘Uthman ibn Hunayf ﵁ which you presented in support of the permissibility of tawassul is, after all, an incident from the blessed lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ; from it one can only establish that the Prophet ﷺ, during his life, permitted supplication with tawassul. The question concerns the time after his passing.

Answer

Both these incidents show that tawassul through a living person is correct, and they are silent about tawassul through the dead. The passage cited in the previous fatwa with reference to al-Tabarani also contained words of tawassul through the earlier prophets. Likewise, the passage quoted there from “Fath al-Qadir”, containing guidance for visitors (za’irin)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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