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Based on the [[Qur'an 12]]: 97, some [[jurists]] said that asking for prayer also includes asking for [[Istighfar|forgiveness]] from God. According to this verse, when everything was revealed about the story of [[Yusuf]], his brothers asked their father, [[Jacob (a)|Ya'qub]] to ask God to forgive them.<ref>Ṣadadī, ''Majmūʿ l-rasāʾil al--fiqhīyya, p. 595.</ref>  

Shi'a Muslims maintain that there is no difference in asking for prayer between the dead and the alive. Thus, they allow asking deceased figures for prayer.<ref>Kāshif al-Ghitāʾ, ''Manhaj al-rashād'', p. 46.</ref> On the contrary, [[Wahhabis]] do not allow asking the deceased, even the [[Prophet (s)]], and consider it heretical.<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Fiqh al-ʿibādāt'', p. 90; ʾAbā Baṭīn, ''al-Radd ʿala l-burda'', p. 48.</ref> They believe that [[Sama' al-Mawta (dead ones' hearing)|the dead cannot hear the alive]]<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Fiqh al-ʿibādāt'', p. 90; ʾAbā Baṭīn, ''Al-radd ʿala l-burda'', p. 48.</ref> and that none of the [[Sahaba of the Prophet (s)]] did this.<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Majmūʿ fatāwā wa rasāʾil'', vol. 2, p. 339; Zaynū, Majmūʿa rasāʾil al-tawjīhāt al-ʾislamīyya'', vol. 3, p. 75.</ref> Shi'a scholars, however, argue that by the will of God, the dead hear the alive,<ref>Subḥānī, ''al-Wahhābīyya'', p. 305-307; Kāshif al-ghitāʾ, ''Manhaj al-rashād'', p. 46 and 55.</ref> and there are accounts that Sahaba asked Prophet (s) to pray for them after his demise.<ref>Subḥānī, ''al-Wahhābīyya'', p. 305-307.</ref>

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