Waleed Basyouni – Salat al Ghaib- Ask The

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Khourid.

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So, we have quite a few questions.

I would like to begin with the, you

know, many a question that many brothers

and sisters have asked about prayer,

praying Jannazzar and absentia.

What's your,

what's your understanding of it, and what are

the ruling,

Islamic ruling in this regard?

If somebody passed away,

it is his right upon the Muslims that

Salat al Janaz to perform upon this person.

Mhmm. And this is, Farooqifaya.

If some Muslim did it, it became just

highly recommended for the rest to do it.

Is

a collective

Obligation. Obligation.

Yes. Or took the Muslim, he must do

it. Right. So like the adhan. Not everybody

called that adhan. If somebody called that adhan,

it would be something. And if if nobody

did it, it becomes a responsibility

upon all the Muslims. Right? Yes. So if

somebody passed away and there is some Muslim

prejudice on them,

no obligation was fulfilled.

The question will be, can some other people

do the salah

on this person even though the salah was

performed on this person

by people who are absent from his place,

like in another city, another

you know country or something like that.

And the answer for those is what we

look at the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we

will find 2 things, One, what's reported in

Bukhari Muslim

that in Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, when

in Najashin zai'ed in the Pisidian, Nabi sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam told us, let's go out,

and they went out and they prayed Janazah

on him even though he was absent

and he said,

today

this righteous

king died, and, you know, and he prayed

Janazah on him.

To make the point also that he's a

Muslim.

From this hadith, some of the Fauhaha said,

so it is allowed for you to pray

Janazah on someone who is not present in

front of you.

And the Shafi'iha,

that this is their, possession,

that that is allowed.

But also when we look at the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's life, we found that

in Nabi Sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa

sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi

wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu

alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam, many of his friends died

in other kind of countries or traveling or

other cities or Like Zayhi bin Harithah and

and Jafar.

Yeah. And

then never prayed Janazah on them, and that's

like large number of incident. Or he never

told the Sahaba in Mecca to do this.

They also

himself when he died.

They did not pray Janaz on him in

Mecca, on on

other cities. Right. He was coming to Medina

to pray group after group, did not pray

Janaz on him in Awal in Medina or

or Yeah. Something like that, But they all

come came and they pray in the prophet

in his own presence. Yes. So from this,

you will have the the malikiya became more

strict, and they said no salatuljanazah

on a raib. You know, as long as

the basic The prayer has been Performed on

hand Yes. There is no point because we

look in the process like also that's a

position of Faridim Ahmed Rahim Allah in another

narration that he said the same thing. Mhmm.

But he tried to reconciliate

between both.

And that's the opinion that's been to me

and Abdul Qayyim have chosen. The the second

of the prophet Muhammad Radha he said, you

only pray Janaza on someone

and is absent even

first, if nobody prey on him or her,

2, like somebody died in a number of

land or, like, die in a place Mhmm.

And lost the body. Nobody knows who he

is. So Drowning or something like this. Right?

So, that's one second. He said,

to combine between evidence, we say that you

pray Janazah on the person who is known

to be a righteous, somebody has great influence,

you know, like what the did with An

Najash.

But then if I He said this is

this sort of said,

like, a king, a right

senior

scholars. You know? Like I remember when Shaykh

Mun Basrah died, he prayed Janaz on him

in Madinah, they prayed Janaz on him on,

in Al Aqsa, in many places around the

world. They did not do that with other

than Sheikh Mohammed Ali. Even when Grand Muftis

died, they never did that. But he has

that special place in the heart of Right.

Right. Some grandiose, like, kind of status.

This can be option, not just

and and I can say

an uncle or, like, a Islamic center imam

or, like, necessarily everybody died, Somebody who really

have

shaved the the the or would have a

great Yeah. That's one opinion. But you might

argue back, said, Sheikh, what about Jafar? He's

a great

Exactly. Great Sahabi. He's a you know, all

these companion died also great Sahabi.

Also

Nabi

himself so you can push back on that

opinion and I do believe that has

only performed performed

on people

who are,

did not receive a Janazah prayer. If they

receive a Janazah prayer, the best thing to

do is to make to offer them, to

make sadaqa on their behalf Exactly. To make,

you know, to increase your dua. And you

mentioned you learned from their live and mentioned

their legacy and so forth. So I do

believe that this is the right thing to

do,

but also if somebody choose the other opinion,

we should not say it is haram or

like be, I I think this is one

of the issue. What is the khilaf? You

see a big split between the.

Right. So,

we take it easy. I mean Yes. The

people Yes.

But but I think, you know, to,

to add to this is that Anur Jassy

was probably the only Muslim within his,

circles.

And and, at that time, I think all

of the Muslims like Jafar and the other

Muslims had left Abyssinia.

So he probably the only Muslim there, and

there was nobody to pray on him. And

even if there is a Muslim, he hide

his slap. Exactly. Yeah. So they they do

will not even be allowed to touch his

body because Right. King, there is a certain

process

to go through the body and to deal

with him according to their culture. So there

is no way Muslim will have an access

to it. And that that's

good argument for those who take the Exactly.

That yeah. That's why the prophet prayed Janazah

on him because there there hadn't been any

Janazah prayed on him where he died. Oh,

yes. The argument is very strong toward that.

Yes. Alright.

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