The ruling on praying for one who was not seen praying in the mosque
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person dies and we did not see him praying with us in the mosque, do we pray for him and invoke the prayer for him?
Answer:
Yes, as long as you have not seen that he abandons the prayer entirely, you should hold a good opinion of him and pray for him. The prayer for him is not dropped except if he apostatizes from the religion of Islam. You do not have certainty that he does not pray and that he abandons the prayer entirely, whether in his home, in the mosque, or anywhere else. The default is that he is a Muslim; the default is that he is a Muslim. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person dies and we did not see him praying with us in the mosque, do we pray for him and invoke the prayer for him?
Answer:
Yes, as long as you have not seen that he abandons the prayer entirely, you should hold a good opinion of him and pray for him. The prayer for him is not dropped except if he apostatizes from the religion of Islam. You do not have certainty that he does not pray and that he abandons the prayer entirely, whether in his home, in the mosque, or anywhere else. The default is that he is a Muslim; the default is that he is a Muslim. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [624 -1024] ما حكم الصلاة على من لا نراه يصلي في المسجد؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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