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Is it beneficial for the deceased if they are prompted with: "Allah is my Lord, Islam is my religion, and Muhammad is my Prophet" after their death, and if the order of the phrases is changed?

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What you did is called "talqin" (instructing the deceased). Instructing the deceased before burial is not something we know to have a legal basis in Islamic law, nor has any scholar affirmed it. What a group of jurists have deemed preferable is to instruct the deceased after burial, based on the hadith reported by Al-Tabarani — though its chain of narration is weak — which states: "When one of your brethren dies, and you have leveled the earth over his grave, let one of you stand at the head of his grave and say: 'O so-and-so, son of so-and-so...'" The Shafi'i school of thought has explicitly stated that instructing the deceased (other than a child) is a Sunnah and should take place after burial.

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