What is the ruling on the 'Id sacrifice on behalf of a deceased person, and what is the best thing to do for a deceased person?

The questioner : Regarding the 'Id sacrifice on behalf of a deceased person, what is its ruling, O honorable Shaykh? And what is the best thing to do for a deceased person?

The Shaykh : The best, indeed the best of what is offered to a deceased person is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided us to, where he said: So consider his statement: where he shifted from action to supplication, and he says at the beginning of the hadith: So he shifted from action to supplication, and this is clear evidence that supplication for the deceased is better than performing actions for him, because we know with certainty, just as we know the light of the sun at high noon when there are no clouds beneath it, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would not shift to the lesser without the greater. He did not say: "or a righteous son who sacrifices for him," and he did not say: "or a righteous son who gives charity on his behalf," and he did not say: "or a righteous son who prays two rak'ahs for him," and he did not say: "or a righteous son who recites a complete Qur'an for him," and he did not say: "or a righteous son who performs 'Umrah for him," and he did not say: "or a righteous son who performs Hajj for him." None of this was mentioned. So why did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) shift from mentioning actions to mentioning supplication? Because offering actions to others is not prescribed, even though it is permissible. However, what is prescribed means that we do not command people to offer actions to their deceased, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not command it. Our actions are for us; we are in need of them, and we will come to the actions that we hope contain good increase. And if we offer our actions to the deceased, we have no reward in them, meaning we have no reward for the action, because the reward for the action is relinquished to the one for whom it is offered. We only have the reward of being kind to this man to whom we offered the action.
Then we say to the brother who wants to offer something to his father or his mother or the like: supplicate to Allah for him. "O Allah, forgive my father. O Allah, settle them in the spacious Paradise," and the like. If this is done, it becomes better than thousands of rak'ahs. So what we advise our brothers is to strive to supplicate for their deceased and to keep their righteous actions for themselves.
As for the issue of the 'Id sacrifice on behalf of a deceased person, up to this moment I do not know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed on behalf of any of the deceased, nor do I know that from the Companions. And it is known that the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) wife Khadijah died, and she was among the most beloved of women to him, and three of his daughters died: Zaynab, Ruqayyah, and Umm Kulthum, and his uncle Hamzah ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib was martyred, and he did not sacrifice on behalf of any of them. The most that happened is that he sacrificed a sacrifice and said: And we do not know what he intended by his statement: Did he mean all the relatives of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his wives, or did he mean the living of the family of Muhammad who were in the house? For this reason, some scholars said: that the 'Id sacrifice on behalf of a deceased person is not prescribed, and that its reward returns to the one who sacrifices, not to the deceased. And they said: that charity equal to the value of the sacrifice is better than the sacrifice, because charity on behalf of the deceased is established by the Sunnah, just as Sa'd ibn 'Ubadah sought permission from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to make his date grove in Madinah for his mother. The date grove is a palm tree that is harvested. And a man came to him, meaning he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and said: O Messenger of Allah! My mother died suddenly, and I think that if she had spoken, she would have given charity. Shall I give charity on her behalf? He said: And no one sought his permission for a sacrifice. And better than sacrificing on behalf of a deceased person alone is to sacrifice on behalf of him and his household, and to intend in his heart his deceased and living relatives. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. The questioner says.