Reader:

On the authority of Abū ʿUsayd as-Sā’idī who said, ‘We were once sitting with the Messenger of Allah when a man from Banī Salīmah came and asked: ‘O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, does there remain any duties for me to carry out towards my parents after their death?” He said ‘Yes, that you invoke Allah for them…’

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

Invoke meaning duʿā, meaning that you supplicate for them.

Reader:

And you ask forgiveness for them..

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

That you seek forgiveness for them

Reader:

And you fulfil their promises for them…

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

That is to fulfil their will if they leave behind a correct Islamic will, and to clear their debt if they have any. If they have a friend that you are good to him because that would make them happy.

Reader:

And maintain all ties of kinship which you have inherited through them…

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

Likewise being dutiful to ones parents after their death is by keeping ties of kinship which is connected to them such as [keeping ties with] brothers, sisters, children, aunts, uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers. This is part of honouring the parents.

Reader:

And maintain all ties of kinship which you have inherited through them and to honour their friends….

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

If they had a friend, then you honour him because this would make them happy whilst they are dead.

Reader:

Reported by Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah and the narrations with this meaning are plentiful.

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān

Once [ʿAbdullah] Ibn ʿUmar was walking on a street when he saw a bedouin, so he went to him, mounted him on his own riding beast and put his own head wrap, over him. So they said to him ‘O Abā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, he is a bedouin, doing less than this is enough for him” He replied ‘He was a friend of ʿUmar. He said, ‘Indeed he was a friend of [my father] ʿUmar ..’ So he honoured him in this way by acting upon this ḥadīth.