Prayer for isal al-thawab

Question

After the Friday prayer some people say to all the worshippers: “I request all the respected worshippers to pray two rak‘as each for my deceased relative” — or for some other purpose. The people, together with the imam, pray two rak‘as each and make du‘a. Is this permissible or not?

Answer

Gifting reward to the deceased by praying, and asking others to do so, is permissible; this is explicitly stated in the noble hadith and in the books of fiqh. In al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya, in the fourteenth chapter — on hajj on behalf of another, it says: [ar]الأصل في هذا الباب أن الإنسان له أن يجعل ثواب عمله لغيره صلاة كان أو صوما أو صدقة أو غيرها[/ar] “The basic principle in…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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