The Ruling on Dedicing Good Deeds to the Dead

The Ruling on Dedicing Good Deeds to the Dead
What are the good deeds that are dedicated and whose benefit reaches the deceased?

First:-May Allah bless you- The original principle regarding dedicating to the dead is not prescribed and is not a recommended practice, neither charity nor 'Umrah nor Hajj nor anything else. What is prescribed is supplication, and the evidence for this is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): (When a person dies, his deeds are cut off except for three: ongoing charity, knowledge that benefits people, or a righteous child who prays for him) Is the hadith now in the context of deeds or in the context of supplication? Deeds. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) shifted from deeds for the deceased to supplication for him, so this indicates that this is what is prescribed, whereas deeds are not prescribed. But does the deceased benefit if deeds are dedicated to him or not?We say: What the Sunnah has brought, there is no way around it, such as charity, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) permitted Sa'd ibn Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him) to give charity from his date palm grove for his mother,And he permitted the man who said: (O Messenger of Allah! My mother died suddenly, and I think that if she had been able to speak, she would have given charity. Should I give charity on her behalf?He said: Yes) And he permitted the man who was reciting the talbiyah on behalf of Shubrumah, saying: (Have you performed Hajj for yourself?He said: No,He said: Perform Hajj for yourself, then perform Hajj for Shubrumah) And he permitted making up the fast of a vow, and performing Hajj on behalf of one who is unable and whose inability is not expected to end. So what the Sunnah has brought is what the Sunnah has ruled upon. Do we analogize all deeds to this? The scholars differed on this,So some of them said: The original principle is that a person's deed is for himself, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said: [Surat al-Najm: 39] And He said: [Surat al-Baqarah: 134] And what has been excepted in the Sunnah is to be taken at face value, as for the rest, it is not.And some of them said: These matters that the Sunnah brought are specific cases, meaning: they are not words with a general scope. We do not know if someone had asked the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) for permission to recite tasbih for his father or to recite the Qur'an for his father, would he have prevented him or not? We do not know. And if the Sunnah has brought this original principle, meaning the original principle of the permissibility of dedicating good deeds, then the general application is more appropriate. This is the choice of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him),And likewise, before him, Imam Ahmad said: Any good deed one performs and dedicates its reward to a Muslim deceased or living person benefits him. But despite that, we do not prefer this,And we say: Supplication for the deceased is better. One supplication is better than a thousand dirhams. Make the deed for yourself, for you are in need of it. When you die, you will wish that you had one good deed. And make the supplication for your deceased one, this is the Sunnah.