The Ruling on Buying Books and Writing That They Are Charity on Behalf of the Deceased
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from outside this country says: There is a custom in our country that when a person dies, his relatives go and buy books from the charitable organizations. They buy books that may have been written on them as charity for so-and-so, the son of so-and-so. And these books are usually about the rulings of graves and about the narrated supplications. Is this action prescribed?
Answer:
How do they buy books from the organization when the organization is a charitable work? How do they buy them when it is a charitable work? They buy from the bookstores. If they buy, they buy from the bookstores that sell books. They make them useful books as an endowment and they supplicate for the deceased to receive the reward. Yes, this is fine.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from outside this country says: There is a custom in our country that when a person dies, his relatives go and buy books from the charitable organizations. They buy books that may have been written on them as charity for so-and-so, the son of so-and-so. And these books are usually about the rulings of graves and about the narrated supplications. Is this action prescribed?
Answer:
How do they buy books from the organization when the organization is a charitable work? How do they buy them when it is a charitable work? They buy from the bookstores. If they buy, they buy from the bookstores that sell books. They make them useful books as an endowment and they supplicate for the deceased to receive the reward. Yes, this is fine.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-11-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (1:11:33)
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