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The ruling on collective supplication when distributing charity
Original (Arabic): https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/38/حكم-الدعاء-الجماعي-عند-تفريق-الصدقة
Question: Our question is about people who gather around the charity that is to be distributed to them, place their hands on it, while one of them supplicates for the person giving the charity and the rest say "Ameen" in raised voices?
Answer: This manner should not be done, because it is an innovation. As for supplicating for the one who gives charity without placing hands on the money given in charity, and without gathering together to raise voices in the manner mentioned, this is prescribed, based on the saying of the Prophet ﷺ: Whoever does you a favor, repay him; and if you do not find anything with which to repay him, then supplicate for him until you see that you have repaid him. Narrated by Abu Dawood and an-Nasa'i, with a sound chain of narration. And Allah is the Grantor of success.[1].
- Majmu' Fatawa wa Maqalat Mutanawwi'ah li al-Shaykh Ibn Baz (1/441).