The Supplication of a Righteous Child for His Parent

The questioner : In the last of her questions, she says: Shaykh, regarding the hadith you mentioned, that when a person dies, his deeds are cut off except for three, and it mentions the righteous child who supplicates for him. Does the child have to be righteous? She says: If the child is not righteous and he supplicates for his parent, does this supplication reach him?

The Shaykh : A child who is not righteous generally does not supplicate for his parents because he is corrupt in himself. He does not care about himself or his parents. But if it is assumed that he supplicates for his parents while he is not righteous, this depends on Allah the Exalted answering this supplicant.