The ruling on slaughtering sheep and holding feasts at funerals
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The presenter:
Isam is with us from Makkah. Go ahead, Isam. Turn off the television, Isam.
The questioner:
Peace be upon you.
The presenter:
And upon you be peace.
The Shaykh:
And upon you be peace.
The questioner:
I am saying that when a person dies, for example, in the morning, and they bury him in the afternoon, some people go and say, “Go slaughter some sheep, slaughter five or six sheep, and five at night, and five after that.” The most expensive funeral, they say, is thirty or forty thousand riyals. This is all for the sheep for the people who gather, who are the relatives of the deceased.
The presenter:
Thank you.
The Shaykh:
All of this is consuming wealth wrongfully. A funeral does not need what it does not need, such as slaughtering and sheep. This is all consuming wealth wrongfully. So they should leave this custom. A funeral is only about words: May Allah reward you with good, may Allah console you, and may Allah forgive your deceased. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Isam is with us from Makkah. Go ahead, Isam. Turn off the television, Isam.
The questioner:
Peace be upon you.
The presenter:
And upon you be peace.
The Shaykh:
And upon you be peace.
The questioner:
I am saying that when a person dies, for example, in the morning, and they bury him in the afternoon, some people go and say, “Go slaughter some sheep, slaughter five or six sheep, and five at night, and five after that.” The most expensive funeral, they say, is thirty or forty thousand riyals. This is all for the sheep for the people who gather, who are the relatives of the deceased.
The presenter:
Thank you.
The Shaykh:
All of this is consuming wealth wrongfully. A funeral does not need what it does not need, such as slaughtering and sheep. This is all consuming wealth wrongfully. So they should leave this custom. A funeral is only about words: May Allah reward you with good, may Allah console you, and may Allah forgive your deceased. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (079) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-02-18] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (43:06)
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