The ruling on leaving the funeral prayer due to having work
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Question:
In the large mosques, they do not perform the funeral prayer despite attending the regular prayers. Some of them leave because they have work to attend to. Is it permissible for him to leave the prayer for the deceased?
Answer:
He does not sin by doing so; because the prayer for the funeral is a collective obligation (fard kifayah). If enough people perform it, the sin falls off the rest, especially if a person has work that requires him to attend to it immediately. In that case, there is no blame on him for leaving. Yes.
In the large mosques, they do not perform the funeral prayer despite attending the regular prayers. Some of them leave because they have work to attend to. Is it permissible for him to leave the prayer for the deceased?
Answer:
He does not sin by doing so; because the prayer for the funeral is a collective obligation (fard kifayah). If enough people perform it, the sin falls off the rest, especially if a person has work that requires him to attend to it immediately. In that case, there is no blame on him for leaving. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/213 — archive.org (12:22)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.