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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it true that if a father who was undutiful to his son is among the people of the Fire, his son, to whom he was undutiful, will intercede for him?

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The questioner: In this, there is this matter regarding the one who performed the 'aqiqah for his son. He did what was obligatory for his son regarding the 'aqiqah. If he is among the people of the Fire... he wants to enter Paradise, they call his father, and the one who performed the 'aqiqah comes. Is this in it?

The Shaykh : How?
The student : ... .

The questioner: That the one for whom his father performed this 'aqiqah... .

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner: That he does not enter Paradise, and they say at the gate of Paradise, "You do not enter unless you bring our father, is he in it?"

The Shaykh: This came from the words of Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) in his interpretation of the saying of the Messenger (peace be upon him):
Every boy is pledged by the 'aqiqah on his seventh day كلُّ غلامٍ مُرتَهَن بعقيقة يوم سابعه
The Messenger (peace be upon him) did not clarify the aspect of that, but it occurred to the Imam (may Allah have mercy on him) this meaning, that the child for whom no 'aqiqah was performed will not have intercession for him on the Day of Resurrection. But we have no text regarding that from Allah and His Messenger, and therefore we say that Allah knows best. However, the hadith is explicit and authentic:
Every boy is pledged by the 'aqiqah كلُّ غلام مُرتَهَن بعقيقة
What releases his pledge? That you slaughter for him, otherwise he remains pledged.
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