A person who goes around to the mosques where funeral prayers are performed and prays over them alone!

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people go around to the mosques where funeral prayers are performed and pray over all of them alone. Is this considered usurping the rights of the deceased and their relatives, since by his action he has dropped the collective obligation, and the prayer...

Answer:
First of all, this is an act of excessive effort for which Allah has not sent down any authority. The Salaf did not do this; they did not go around to people or go around to funerals. They did nothing but attend the funeral and pray with the Muslims over it, without making an effort to search for it. That is one thing. The second thing is that this involves usurping the position of the mosque imam. The funeral is in the mosque, and the mosque imam prays over it. Do not precede him; wait for the mosque imam to pray over it, and the congregation prays with him. Yes.