I asked one of the brothers who is well-versed in religion, and he is the imam of a mosque, saying:

The questioner : I asked one of the brothers who is well-versed in religion and is the imam of a mosque, saying: Is it permissible for me to make up the prayers on behalf of my father (may Allah have mercy on him), given that the circumstances of his illness before his passing at an age of about 65 were hemiplegia and a concentrated clot in the brain? The answer was yes, so he said: It is permissible for you to pray on his behalf. My father passed away in the intensive care unit, and the last thing he said was: "Praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah." I pray all the obligatory and recommended prayers and fast on his behalf? Is this permissible for me? May Allah reward you with good. He has been deceased for approximately two years?

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. We ask Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) to make what concluded your father's life, issued from sincerity and certainty, so that it is realized that the last thing he said was: "There is no god but Allah." The glad tidings for the one whose last words from this world are: "There is no god but Allah," is that he will enter Paradise. We ask Allah the Exalted to conclude for us and for our Muslim brothers with the conclusion of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and faith. As for making up the prayers on behalf of your father, it is not permissible for you to make up the prayers on his behalf, because making up is an act of worship, and acts of worship are based on restriction, meaning on the Shari'ah coming with them, and it has not come in the Shari'ah that anything of the prayers is made up for the deceased. And on this basis, do not make up anything for your father. And the one who issued the fatwa to you that you make up the prayers on his behalf is not correct in his fatwa. As for fasting, it is, that is, your father, not obligated to fast as long as his illness that you mentioned, because such an illness is not expected to be cured. And on this basis, the obligatory thing is that he feeds one poor person for every day, and the sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of barley is sufficient for four poor people, meaning it is sufficient for four days. So if your father did not fast for two months, and the two months were complete, it is obligatory for you to feed sixty poor people twice, once for the first year and once for the next year. And do not fast on his behalf, because everyone whose excuse is not expected to end, if he breaks his fast, then his obligation is feeding, and his obligation is not fasting on his behalf. And on this basis, the summary of the answer is: Do not pray on behalf of your father for the prayers he missed, because that has not come in the Shari'ah, and making up is an act of worship that requires coming from the Shari'ah, and no text has come in the Shari'ah except in fasting. And as for what your father missed of fasting, you feed on his behalf one poor person for every day, because fasting is not obligatory upon him, but what is obligatory upon him is feeding. And as for the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): , this is only for a man who was able to make up, meaning to make up what he left of fasting, but he did not make it up. This is the one for whom, when he dies, it is fasted on his behalf.

The questioner : May Allah bless you.