Asking the righteous living for supplication
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view of the one who asks those he sees to be righteous, while they are still alive, to make supplication for him? If you tell him, “You should make more supplication for yourself,” he says, “I have sins, transgressions, and shortcomings.”
Answer:
This is permissible, there is no doubt in that. Asking the righteous for supplication while they are alive is permissible, there is no doubt in it. The Companions did this, as you have heard. And for him to make supplication for himself is better, there is no doubt in that. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view of the one who asks those he sees to be righteous, while they are still alive, to make supplication for him? If you tell him, “You should make more supplication for yourself,” he says, “I have sins, transgressions, and shortcomings.”
Answer:
This is permissible, there is no doubt in that. Asking the righteous for supplication while they are alive is permissible, there is no doubt in it. The Companions did this, as you have heard. And for him to make supplication for himself is better, there is no doubt in that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 03- شرح نواقض الاسلام -الناقض الثاني- وسائط - الشيخ صالح الفوزان - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:04:10)
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