Saying answers to questions to the dead on burial

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Sep 28, 2023, 02:42 PM Last Edit: Oct 01, 2023, 09:33 AM by Abu Muhammad
📌 Saying answers to questions to the dead on burial

❓ Question: Some people say that it is forbidden to say answers to a dead Muslim being questioned on burial, for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) never did it. Is this true?
✍🏻 Answer: It is a bid'ah to say answers to a dead person being questioned on burial. It was not done by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him), the rightly guided caliphs or the rest of his ṣaḥābah. Ḥadīths approving of that bid'ah are not genuine ones. However, the established sunnah is to help the dying Muslim say "la ilaha illa Allāh" (there is no God but Allāh). It is what the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) instructed the ṣaḥābah to do. [Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (916-917)]

May Allāh grant all of us success. May His prayers and peace be upon Prophet Muḥammad, his kin and his ṣaḥābah.

📚 Source: Anthology of Fatwas by Scholars of the Holy Land – A fatwa by the permanent committee for religious research and iftā' (1/750)
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