Praying for one’s father is a form of being kind to him, being kind to him, and having a good relationship with him. This includes praying for mercy and forgiveness for him after his death. Praying for one’s parents is one of the forms of maintaining ties of kinship, which is one of the reasons for increasing one’s livelihood and attaining blessings from him. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said. -: “Whoever loves to have his livelihood expanded, and his path extended, let him maintain his ties of kinship.”[1][2]
A prayer for my dead father from the Sunnah of the Prophet
“O God, forgive him and have mercy on him, pardon him and keep him well, honor his abode, widen his entrance, wash him with water, snow, and hail, and purify him of sins as a person is purified Remove the white from filth, and replace it with a better house than its own, and a better family than its family, and a better spouse than its spouse, and protect yourself from temptation. The grave and the torment of the Fire.” [Narrated by Muslim, in Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Awf bin Malik Al-Ashja’i, page or number: 963, Sahih.]
“O God, forgive our living and our dead, our young and our old, our males and our females, those of us who are present and our absent ones. O God, whoever among us You have brought to life, grant him life to follow faith, and whoever of us You have caused to die, cause him to die in Islam. O God, do not deprive us of his reward and do not lead us astray after him [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Abi Dawud, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 3201, correct.]
“O God, under your protection is the jurisprudence of the trial of the grave and the torment of the Fire. You are worthy of loyalty and praise. O God, forgive him and have mercy on him. Indeed, you are the Forgiving, the Merciful.” [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Abi Dawud, on the authority of Wathilah bin Al-Asqa’, page or number: 3202, authentic.]
“O God, he is Your servant and the son of Your servant. He bore witness that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is Your servant and Messenger, and You know him better than us. If he is a doer of good, then increase his good deeds, and if he is an offender, forgive him and do not deprive us of his reward and do not test us after him.” [Narrated by Ibn Hibban, in Sahih Ibn Hibban, On the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 3073, included in his Sahih.]
Prayers on Friday for my dead father
“Oh God, make my father, the companion of the Prophet, in the highest heaven.”
“Oh God, make my father a master of Paradise.”
“O God, You are Most Forgiving and You love to forgive, so forgive my father.”
“Oh God, keep the fire of hell away from my parents.”
“Oh God, make my father among the people of Paradise, Amen, O Lord of the Worlds.”
“Oh God, Creator of Paradise, grant my father the highest paradise.”
“Oh God, raise my father’s status in Paradise and make his scales heavy.”
“Oh God, make my father one of those who laugh and rejoice, who are planted in the fruits of Your Paradise, who drink from the basin of Your Prophet, and who are fortunate in his intercession, O Most Merciful of those who are merciful.”
Prayers for my dead father in Ramadan
“Oh God, fill my father’s grave with contentment, light, spaciousness, and happiness.”
“O God, send my father down to the ranks of the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous, and be good companions to those. Oh God, make my father’s grave a garden of the gardens of Paradise, and do not make it a pit of hell.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my father with a mercy that extends to the heavens and the earth. Oh God, make his grave in perpetual, uninterrupted light, and place him in your paradise, safe and reassured, O Lord of the worlds.”
“O God, feed my mother and father from Paradise, give them drink from the people of Paradise, and show them their place in Paradise, and say to them: Enter through any door you wish, with your mercy, your presence, and your benevolence, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my father, who left this world without saying goodbye to me, and my soul longed for him but could not find him. My Lord, have mercy on the one who sleeps in the embrace of dust and have mercy on his loneliness, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my father, who is lost in my heart, forgive him, forget his loss, and expand his grave. Oh God, make his days in Paradise more beautiful.”
“Oh God, have mercy on those who died in this world and did not die in our hearts. Oh God, have mercy on my father and make him dwell in your paradise.”
“Oh God, make my father one of the seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without judgment or previous torment.”
“Oh God, make my father taste the comfort of Paradise, after which there will be no pain or fatigue.”
“Oh God, treat him with what you deserve, and do not treat him with what he deserves.”
A prayer for my dead father on the Night of Destiny
“O God, reward him for doing good with kindness, and for doing wrong with forgiveness and forgiveness.”
“O God, if he is benevolent, increase his good deeds, and if he is abusive, then overlook his bad deeds.”
“Oh God, let him enter Paradise without discussion of account, and without precedent of torment.”
“Oh God, forget him in his loneliness, in his loneliness, and in his alienation.”
“Oh God, send it down to a blessed house, and you are the best of those who send it down.”
"O Allah, verily homes saints and martyrs and the righteous and those are the companion".
“O God, make his grave a garden of Paradise, and do not make it a pit of fire.”
O God, widen his grave for him, extend his sight, and furnish his grave with the bed of Paradise.”
“Oh God, protect him from the torment of the grave, and the dryness of the earth from its sides.”
"Oh God, fill his grave satisfaction, light and break and pleasure".
“Oh God, we beg you, and we swear by you that you will have mercy on him and not torture him, and that you will support him when asked.”
“Oh God, it came down to you and you are the best thing to befall it, and he became poor to your mercy, and you are free from his torment.”
“Oh God, bring him your mercy and satisfaction, protect him from the trial and torment of the grave, and grant him your mercy, safe from your torment until you send him to your paradise, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“Oh God, transport him to the gardens of eternity.”
“Oh God, protect him under the earth, and cover him on the day of his presentation. Oh God, grant his book, ease his account, weigh his scales with good deeds, make his feet firm on the path, and make him dwell in the highest gardens, next to your lover and chosen one, may God bless him and grant him peace.”
A prayer for my dead father on Eid
“O God, make him reassured in the depths of the grave, safe when the witnesses stand, and confident in the presence of Your pleasure, and to the highest level before You.”
“Oh God, put light on his right hand, so that you may send him safe and reassured in a light of your light.”
“Oh God, look at him with a look of contentment. Oh God, make him dwell in spacious Paradise, forgive him, O Most Merciful, and have mercy on him, O Most Merciful, and overlook what you know, O All-Knowing.”
“Oh God, pardon him. Oh God, he came at your door and embraced you beside you, so bestow upon him your pardon, your honor, and the presence of your benevolence.”
“Oh God, your mercy encompasses everything, so have mercy on him with a mercy that reassures his soul and soothes his eyes.”
“O God, this is your servant who has become under your protection and under your protection, so grant him your gardens and save him, O God, from your torment, for you are the people of truth and the people of mercy and loyalty, so have mercy on him and forgive him, for he has left the world and its vastness and separated from his family and loved ones.”
“Oh God, gather him with the righteous as a delegation to the Most Gracious.”
“Oh God, gather him with the companions of the right. Oh God, make him among those who are happy in Paradise, abiding therein as long as the heavens and the earth last.”
A prayer for my dead father before dawn
“Oh God, we do not praise him, but we think that he believed and did good deeds.”
“Oh God, intercede for him, our Prophet and your Chosen One, gather him under your banner, and give him a blissful drink from his honorable hand that he will never be thirsty again.”
“O God, he was patient with the affliction and did not panic, so grant him the rank of the patient, those who pay their wages in full without reckoning.”
“O God, grant him sweetness with every letter in the Qur’an, every word with dignity, with every verse with happiness, with every surah with safety, and with every part with reward.”
“O God, have mercy on him, for he was a Muslim, and forgive him, for he was a believer, and admit him to Paradise, for he was a believer in Your Prophet, and forgive him, for he was a reciter of Your Book.”
“O God, have mercy on us when certainty comes to us, sweat pours from our brows, and groaning and longing increase.”
“Oh God, intercede for him for our Prophet and your Chosen One, gather him under your banner, and give him a blissful drink from his honorable hand that he will never be thirsty again.”
“O God, O God, who extends hands with gifts, O God, who is near, who responds to the call of the supplicant when he calls upon him, O God, who is tender, who is benevolent, who is most merciful, who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, O One, O Samad, O God, have mercy on him and forgive him.”
“O God, accept his little and forgive his shortcomings. O God, make his illness an atonement for all his sins, and make his final torment the torment of this world. O God, make him firm with firm words, raise his rank, forgive his sins, and weigh his scales heavy. O God, give him an easy reckoning, O Most Merciful of His servants to themselves, and of a mother to her child.”
“O God, have mercy on those whose bodies are covered with shrouds, and make their graves the best place for their eyes to sleep until the Hour comes, and have mercy on us if we become what they have become. O God, have mercy on the good souls who moved to your neighborhood, forgive them, expand their graves, gather us with them in your gardens, and heal our hearts after them.”
A prayer for my dead father at his grave
“Oh God, this is your servant and the son of your servant. He left the soul of the world and its vastness, and his beloved and his loved ones in it, into the darkness of the grave and what he will find. He bore witness that there is no god but You, and that Muhammad is your servant and Messenger, and you know him best. Oh God, he descended upon you and you are the best descendant of him, and he became poor. To Your mercy, and You are free of his torment, and we have come to You seeking to You as intercessors for him. O God, if he is a doer of good, increase his benevolence, and if he is an abuser, then overlook him. Protect him from the trial and torment of the grave, and make his grave spacious for him, and dry the earth from his sides.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my father under the dirt, and make him happy in Jannatul Firdaus as he made me happy, and I seek refuge in God from a world devoid of my loved ones.”
“Oh God, have mercy on those whose separation is too great for me. O Lord, my father is the most precious person I lost. Have mercy on him with your mercy and unite me with him, O Lord of the worlds.”
“O God, reward my father for his benevolence with kindness, and for his abuse with pardon and forgiveness.”
“My Lord, my father is not with me, but he is in my heart and in my prayers. He has moved to your side, O you who are the most generous and kindest of neighbours.”
“O God, make my father’s grave wide, widen his sight, and spread his grave from the bed of Paradise. O God, replace my father with a better house than his house, and a better family than his family, and admit him to Paradise, and protect him from the torment of the grave, and from the torment of the Fire.”
“Oh God, my father bore witness that there is no god but You, and that Muhammad is Your servant and Messenger, and You know him best, so have mercy on him.”
“Oh God, move him from the places of worms and the narrowness of sorrows, to the gardens of eternity.”
“O God, have mercy on him under the earth, and cover him on the day of his display, and do not disgrace him on the day they are resurrected, the day when neither wealth nor children will benefit except those who come to God with a sound heart.”
“O God, protect him from the terror of the Day of Resurrection, and from the terror of the Day of Resurrection, and make his soul safe and reassured, and teach him his proof.”
Oh God, give him good news by saying, “Eat and drink happily, as you have mentioned in the past days.”