The virtue of praying for the deceased
Praying for the dead and seeking forgiveness for him is one of the greatest deeds that benefit him, and it is valid to pray for him in any form that indicates compassion for him and seeking forgiveness for him. Imam Al-Nawawi - may God have mercy on him - said: “Supplication brings its reward to the dead, as does charity, and they are unanimously agreed upon,” and the dead person benefits from supplication from Anyone, and it is not required that the supplication be from his son.[1][2]
A prayer for my deceased grandfather from the Sunnah of the Prophet
“O God, forgive him and raise his rank among the Mahdi, and succeed him in his succession among those who departed, and forgive us and him, O Lord of the worlds, and make his grave clear for him, and give him light in it [Narrated by Muslim, in Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Umm Salamah, Mother of the Believers, page or number: 920, true.]
“O God, forgive him, have mercy on him, protect him, pardon him, honor his abode, widen his entrance, wash him with water, ice, and hail, and purify him of sins as he was purified Remove the white garment from filth, and replace it with a better home, a better family than its wife, and a better than its wife, and admit it to Paradise and protect it from The torment of the grave, or 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.]
“Oh God, he is under your protection and the protection of your protection from the temptation 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’ Al-Laythi, page or number: 3202, authentic. ]
“O God, forgive our living and our dead, our witnesses and those who are absent, our young and our old, our males and our females. O God, whoever among us You have made alive, grant him life to follow Islam, and whoever of us You have caused to die, cause him to die in faith. O God, do not deprive us of his reward and do not lead us astray after him.”[ Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Ibn Majah, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 1226, Sahih.]
Various prayers for my deceased grandfather
“Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather, as much as the pain of his passing was too great to bear with crying.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather with a mercy that will reassure his soul and soothe his eyes.”
“Oh Lord, I miss him so much and I long for him. Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather with your mercy and gather me with him in your gardens, O Generous One.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather with the number of hands raised in your supplication. O Lord, make him happy with the scent and bliss of Paradise.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather and do not extinguish the light of his grave.”
“Oh God, you love my grandfather and he is now in your hands, so have mercy on him and forgive him as much as we miss him.”
“O God, perfume my grandfather’s grave with the scent of Paradise. O God, have mercy on the souls who have passed away and make Paradise a home and abode for them.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my beloved grandfather and make his memory filled with goodness. Oh God, grow around his grave a lasting basil that does not wither. Oh God, shine and light on his grave.”
“Oh God, have mercy on every dead person whose work has ceased and who has become alone under the dirt. Oh God, forget their loneliness, forgive their sins, and make Paradise their home.”
“O God, have mercy on my grandfather according to the number of prayers that Your servants have prayed, and place him in the dwellings of Your Paradise, safe and secure, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“Oh God, have mercy on a smiling face that we lost and a spacious chest that the world narrowed for us after him. Oh God, expand my grandfather’s grave with eternal bliss and all our dead and the dead Muslims. Oh God, have mercy on him and forgive him, for he is the most precious thing I have lost.”
“Oh God, I have tasted the bitterness of loss in my heart’s most beloved creation, so compensate me with the sweetness of meeting him in your paradise. Oh God, have mercy on my beloved grandfather and forgive him, O Generous One.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my grandfather as much as I wished for him to stay. Oh God, give him a taste of the bliss that You promised the believers. Oh God, have mercy on him and place him in permanent, uninterrupted bliss.”
“Oh God, save him from the torment of Hell and admit him to Paradise from its widest gates, O Lord.”
“Oh God, my grandfather is in one of the graves, and my heart cannot forget him. Oh God, you are more merciful to him than I am, so protect him from the torment of hell.”
“O God, overlook his bad deeds, forgive him, and have mercy on him, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“Oh God, as many drops of rain, have mercy on my grandfather.”
“Oh God, have mercy on our ancestors, illuminate their graves, and rain upon them with mercy and light, and make their graves one of the gardens of Paradise, and bless them with its bliss and all the dead Muslims, O God.”
“Oh God, have mercy on my beloved grandfather and my deceased, and make him taste the sweetness of Paradise, the scent of Paradise, the perfume of Paradise, and the musk of Paradise, and do not deprive him of the bliss of Paradise, O Lord.”
“O God, replace him with a better home than his home, and a better family than his family, and admit him to Paradise, and protect him from the torment of the grave and the torment of the Fire.”
“Oh God, treat him with what you deserve, and do not treat him with what he deserves.”
“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 a blessed place, 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".
"Oh God, make his grave gardens of Paradise".
“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, he is under your protection and your protection, the jurisprudence of the temptation of the grave, and the torment of the fire, and you are the people of loyalty and truth, so forgive him and have mercy on him, for you are the Forgiving, the Merciful.”
“Oh God, he is your servant and the son of your servant. He left the world, its vastness, his beloved ones, and his loved ones in it, to the darkness of the grave, and what he will find.”
“Oh God, he was bearing witness that there is no god but You, and that Muhammad is Your servant and Messenger, and You know him best.”
“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, cover him on the day of his display, and do not disgrace him on the day they are resurrected.”
“Oh God, grant his book, ease his reckoning, heavy his scales with good deeds, make his feet firm on the path, and make him dwell in the highest gardens, next to your beloved and chosen one, may God bless him and grant him peace.”
“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.”
“O God, make him reassured in the depths of the grave, safe when the testimonies arise, 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, and make him dwell in spacious Paradise, and forgive him, O Most Merciful, and have mercy on him, O Most Merciful, and overlook what you know, O All-Knowing.”
“O God, pardon him, for he came to your door and embraced 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.”
“Oh God, gather him with the righteous as a delegation to the Most Gracious.”
“Oh God, gather him with the companions of the right, and make his greeting a greeting to you from 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.”
“Oh God, we do not praise him, but we think that he has believed and done good deeds, so make for him two gardens of abundant beings.”
“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 in the face of affliction and did not panic, so grant him the rank of the patient ones who are fully rewarded without reckoning.”
“O God, he was praying for You, so make him steadfast on the path on the day when his feet would slip. O God, he was fasting for You, so admit him to Paradise from the gate of Al-Rayyan.”
“O God, he was a follower and listener of Your Book, so intercede for him in the Qur’an, and have mercy on him from the flames, and make him, O Most Merciful, rise in Paradise to the last verse he read or heard, and the last letter he recited.”
“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, he is your servant, the son of your servant, and the son of your female slave. He died bearing witness to Your oneness, and to Your Messenger, so forgive him, for You are the Forgiver.”
“Oh God, do not deprive us of his reward, and do not put us to trial after him, and forgive us and him, and gather us with him in the gardens of bliss, O Lord of the Worlds.”
“O God, widen his grave for him, extend his sight, and furnish his grave with the bed of Paradise.”