Leaving the neighborhood mosque to pray in a grand mosque for the sake of funeral prayers
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Question:
Some people leave the prayer in their nearby mosque and go to a grand mosque, saying it is because there are funeral prayers there?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that; one seeks the reward and recompense in praying over the funeral. So there is good in that, if Allah wills. Yes. But one should not go from mosque to mosque. If he prays over a funeral in a mosque, that is sufficient, even if it is just one funeral. It is sufficient if he prays over one funeral or several funerals. There is no need for him to go around following the mosques to pray over funerals. A fatwa has been issued by the Permanent Committee prohibiting this. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Some people leave the prayer in their nearby mosque and go to a grand mosque, saying it is because there are funeral prayers there?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that; one seeks the reward and recompense in praying over the funeral. So there is good in that, if Allah wills. Yes. But one should not go from mosque to mosque. If he prays over a funeral in a mosque, that is sufficient, even if it is just one funeral. It is sufficient if he prays over one funeral or several funerals. There is no need for him to go around following the mosques to pray over funerals. A fatwa has been issued by the Permanent Committee prohibiting this. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «السعودية»، برنامج فتاوى — youtube.com (28:53)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.