Who Is Entitled to the Food of Isal al-Thawab?

Question

Zayd says that Hazrat Mawlana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi ﵀, Hazrat Haji Imdadullah ﵀ and Hazrat Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi ﵀ have given, in “Fatawa Rashidiyya” and “Ashrafiyya”, a fatwa to this effect: if one does not perform the fourth-day memorial rite, the third-day memorial gathering and the fortieth-day memorial, but instead on any day within forty days cooks food and feeds people, it is permissible; and everyone, poor or rich, may eat that food; both doing so and eating [it] are permissible — though if a rich…

Answer

In the argument of Zayd which you have quoted there is no reference to even a single hadith. Where is the hadith by which Zayd has given his proof? Have him write it down. Earlier too we asked this very thing and demanded a reference.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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