Questioner:
What are the actions that benefit a person after he has died?
Shaykh Zayd ibn Muḥammad al-Madkhalī:
On-going charity [such as] knowledge which is inherited [by others], righteous children who supplicate for him and charity which has been given by way of wealth.
As the ḥadīth has mentioned ‘When a human being dies, all of his deeds are terminated except for three types; an on-going charity, a knowledge from which others benefit from, and a righteous child who makes duʿā for him whether male or female.’ Likewise the supplication made by his companions for him will benefit him during his lifetime as well as after death.