Fasting on behalf of a deceased person who died in a car accident
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: A person died in a car accident involving two cars, one driven by him and the other carrying passengers. All the people in the accident died. The question is: the driver’s share of the fault was seventy-five percent. Should he be fasted for?
Answer:
That is, the driver was seventy-five percent at fault; he struck a car and its passengers died, and he bore seventy-five percent of the liability for the accident. He owes an expiation for each of them, an expiation for each of them, the expiation for accidental killing, which is freeing a slave. If he cannot find one, he must fast two consecutive months. These expiations become a debt in his estate. If he finds among his Muslim brothers someone who will fast on his behalf, each person fasting for one expiation, then he pays them for it, and the deceased’s estate is thereby cleared, if Allah wills.
If these expiations are distributed among a group of Muslims, each fasting an expiation, this benefits the deceased and clears his estate, and the one who fasts is rewarded. This is because it is cooperation in righteousness and piety.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: A person died in a car accident involving two cars, one driven by him and the other carrying passengers. All the people in the accident died. The question is: the driver’s share of the fault was seventy-five percent. Should he be fasted for?
Answer:
That is, the driver was seventy-five percent at fault; he struck a car and its passengers died, and he bore seventy-five percent of the liability for the accident. He owes an expiation for each of them, an expiation for each of them, the expiation for accidental killing, which is freeing a slave. If he cannot find one, he must fast two consecutive months. These expiations become a debt in his estate. If he finds among his Muslim brothers someone who will fast on his behalf, each person fasting for one expiation, then he pays them for it, and the deceased’s estate is thereby cleared, if Allah wills.
If these expiations are distributed among a group of Muslims, each fasting an expiation, this benefits the deceased and clears his estate, and the one who fasts is rewarded. This is because it is cooperation in righteousness and piety.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 29 — archive.org (48:56)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.