What is the ruling on one who designates a specific day to pray in mosques where many funerals take place, in order to witness this virtue?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: One who designates a day in the week to perform the 'Asr prayer in a mosque where funerals are held, for the sake of praying over the deceased, and does this every week, is his action prescribed?
The Shaykh:
If it does not lead to hardship, and does not lead to abandoning an obligatory duty, there is nothing wrong with it. He seeks the reward; he seeks the reward. There is reward in praying over the deceased. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
But the exaggerations and these things, the overexertions, are what are not prescribed. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: One who designates a day in the week to perform the 'Asr prayer in a mosque where funerals are held, for the sake of praying over the deceased, and does this every week, is his action prescribed?
The Shaykh:
If it does not lead to hardship, and does not lead to abandoning an obligatory duty, there is nothing wrong with it. He seeks the reward; he seeks the reward. There is reward in praying over the deceased. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
But the exaggerations and these things, the overexertions, are what are not prescribed. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [958 -3022] ما حكم من يخصص يوما للصلاة في المساجد التي تكثر فيها الجنائز، ليشهد هذا الفضل؟ — youtube.com
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