1. Does the reward for the deeds of a boy, who was raised after the death of his father's friend, reach this deceased guardian, and is the guardian treated like parents in terms of receiving the reward for these deeds, or like other Muslims? 2. Does the son's deeds cease if he dies before his father, in the same way mentioned in the Hadith: "When a person dies, his deeds come to an end"? 3. Is the father not rewarded for the good deeds his son does if the father disapproved of his son doing this good during his lifetime, for example, if he rejected his son's adherence to the Sunnah and Tawhid? Will his son's deeds benefit him after his death despite his rejection of the path of truth? 4. Must the father be a cause for his son's righteousness for him to benefit from his deeds after his death? 5. Is the son's righteousness after his father's death relative, or must it be complete righteousness, meaning full adherence to the rituals, commands, and prohibitions of the religion, or is it sufficient for the son to be within the sphere of Islam to be considered among the righteous?
A man is rewarded for his kindness to this child. Allah recompenses for deeds, even if they are few, and no one is wronged by Him. No one other than the parents can be like them. The Hadith, "When a human being dies, all of his deeds are severed except for three: ... and a righteous child who supplicates for him," explains that the child is from the deceased's earning, and not the father from his child's earning. The parent may benefit from the righteous deeds of his child if he was a cause for it through good upbringing and the like. A righteous child is one who performs the obligatory duties and avoids major sins.
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