Imam -asws replied...

Imam -asws replied: Yes, sometimes it helps them, specially when they are in grief. When you pray for them, Allah -azwj relieves them from their difficulties and also Informs them the relief comes to you as a result of your brother so and so has done such and such on your behalf.

[16] قال: وقال (عليه السلام): إن الميت ليفرح بالترحم عليه والاستغفار له كما يفرح الحى بالهدية تهدى إليه Also said, similar to the alive, who rejoice upon getting presents, deceased are pleased when blessings and prayers are forwarded to them. [17] قال: وقال (عليه السلام): يدخل على الميت في قبره الصلاة والصوم والحج والصدقة والبر والدعاء ويكتب أجره للذي يفعله وللميت The prayers (Salat), the fasts, the pilgrimage and the charities forwarded for a dead person would enter into his grave.

And the reward of All these is written in the account of the both, the deceased and the sender. [18] ورام بن أبي فراس في كتابه قال: قال (عليه السلام): إذا تصدق الرجل بنية الميت أمر الله جبرئيل أن يحمل إلى قبره سبعين ألف ملك، في يد كل ملك طبق فيحملون إلى قبره، ويقولون: السلام عليك ياولي الله، هذه هدية فلان بن فلان إليك فيتلالا قبره وأعطاه الله ألف مدينة في الجنة، وزوجه ألف حوراء، وألبسه ألف حلة، وقضى له ألف حاجة When someone gives alms (Sadaqa) on behalf of a dead person Allah -azwj Commands Angel Jibraeel -as to visit his grave with seventy thousand angels, each angel holding a sack of blessings.

The angels go near the grave and say: ‘السلام عليك ياولي الله’ Al-Salam Alaykoum O servant of Allah -azwj , so-and-so, the son of so-and-so has sent to you these presents.

They, then sparkle his grave with the bounties of what they have brought in with them and say (in addition) Allah -azwj has given you one thousand (1000) cities in the paradise, 1000 lustrous-eyed devout servants (Houri), and beautiful dresses and have fulfilled your wishes [19] Transferring Rewards by feeding/quenching/clothing/paying debts of a Momin , عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام أنه قال: شبع أربعة من المسلمين يعدل رقبة من ولد إسماعيل (ع).

From Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Satiating (the hunger of) four from the Muslims equates to freeing a neck from the children of Ismail -as ’. [20] وعن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: ما من مؤمن يدخل بيته مؤمنين يطعمهما [ ويشبعهما ]: إلا كان ذلك أفضل من عتق نسمة. And from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘There is none from a ‘ Momin’ (believer) who invites two Momin een into his house to feed them (and satiate them), except that would be superior than the one who frees a person’.

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