The ruling on bequeathing the holding of a wedding feast after death on the fortieth day
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: A person bequeathed that a wedding feast be held for him after his death on the fortieth day. Is his bequest binding? And is it obligatory?
Answer:
It is invalid. This is invalid, and no wedding feast is to be held for him. Rather, he should say, “Give charity on my behalf,” and there is no harm in that. Give charity on my behalf; that is good. But holding the feast of the fortieth day, which they call the “fortieth of the grave,” is a bid'ah (religious innovation). Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: A person bequeathed that a wedding feast be held for him after his death on the fortieth day. Is his bequest binding? And is it obligatory?
Answer:
It is invalid. This is invalid, and no wedding feast is to be held for him. Rather, he should say, “Give charity on my behalf,” and there is no harm in that. Give charity on my behalf; that is good. But holding the feast of the fortieth day, which they call the “fortieth of the grave,” is a bid'ah (religious innovation). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 543- حكم الوصية بإقامة وليمة بعد الموت بأربعين يوما - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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