Asking the dead to make dua and making dua through waseela

Q:

1. Is it permissible to ask a dead person to make dua to Allah on our behalf?

2. Is it permissible to make dua like this: “O Allah I ask you through the waseela of Nabi Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and the pious people’ and ‘O Allah I ask you through the easels of your attributes and the Quran’?

A:

1. There is no basis for this.

2. It is permissible.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)