The ruling on making up the prayers of a deceased woman who prayed facing away from the qiblah

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this is a question that came from the internet. It concerns a woman who has passed away. She performed Hajj in one of the past years, and when she came to Makkah, she and those with her prayed for three days facing away from the qiblah. She did not repeat her prayers because she was ignorant of the error. Do the deceased woman’s sons have to make up these prayers?

Answer:
The prayer is not made up, and no one prays on behalf of another, because prayer is a physical act, and no one performs it on behalf of another. This woman has died, so her matter is left to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). We hope that Allah will forgive her if she did not intentionally deviate from the qiblah. Then, we do not know about her deviation from the qiblah: was it a great deviation and turning one’s back on the qiblah, or was it a slight deviation? If it was slight, it does not harm. But if it was a great deviation from the qiblah, the prayer is not valid with it. However, if she did not know, we hope that Allah will forgive her.

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