Is it permissible to make collective supplication after burying the deceased?

Question:
The questioner, who used the initials (A. A) for his name, asks: Is it permissible to make collective supplication after burying the deceased?

Answer:
As for the one who buries the deceased and relies on this, saying: "Gather together so that I may make supplication and you say 'Ameen,'" we know no basis for this. I know no basis for this from the righteous predecessors.
However, if he makes supplication at the grave, and those around him say "Ameen," hearing him make supplication and saying "Ameen" without any intention, there is no harm in that. If a person says "Ameen" to his brother's supplication when the deceased is being buried, such as "O Allah, forgive him and grant him firmness with the firm word," and some of those present say "Ameen, Ameen," there is nothing wrong with that. As for intending it and agreeing upon it, that this one makes supplication and these others say "Ameen," I know no basis for this from the righteous predecessors, so leaving it is better and safer.
As for saying "Ameen" without intention, saying it because it is prescribed to make supplication for the deceased, if he makes supplication for the deceased after the burial, and some of his brothers hear him and say "Ameen," there is no harm in that; because it is supplication for good, and saying "Ameen" to good, and praise be to Allah. Yes.