Gifting the Reward of Fard and Wajib Acts

Question

Besides the sunnas and mustahabb acts, can the reward of fard and wajib acts also be conveyed to the dead or not? If not, then the apparent reason for this seems to be that if one gifts the reward of some good deed to another, the giver will be deprived of the reward. Therefore one should keep the immense rewards of fard and wajib acts for oneself alone, and even the rewards of sunna and mustahabb acts one should gift only to the extent that one gives zakat and charity from one’s wealth: for if what has been…

Answer

There is also a view that one may gift the reward of fard and wajib acts as well, but caution (ihtiyat) lies in not gifting their reward. [When a person] has gifted to others the reward of any of his good deeds, the reward of that very gifting is in no way less.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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