Those which are Permissible in Islam
، قرب الإسناد أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ قَالَ: كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ع أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ أَعْمَالَهُ مِنَ الصَّلَاةِ وَ الْبِرِّ وَ الْخَيْرِ أَثْلَاثاً ثُلُثاً لَهُ وَ ثُلُثَيْنِ لِأَبَوَيْهِ أَوْ يُفْرِدَهُمَا مِنْ أَعْمَالِهِ بِشَيْءٍ مِمَّا يَتَطَوَّعُ بِهِ بِشَيْءٍ مَعْلُومٍ وَ إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُهُمَا حَيّاً وَ الْآخَرُ مَيِّتاً
(The book) ‘Qurb Al Asnad’ – Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Jundab who said,
‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Musa-asws asking him-asws about the man wanting to make his deed, from the Salat, and the righteous acts, and the good deed into three – a third being for him, and two-thirds being for his parents, or individualise them with something from his deed from what he had been volunteered with something known, and even if one of them is alive and the other one dead’.
قَالَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ أَمَّا لِلْمَيِّتِ فَحَسَنٌ جَائِزٌ وَ أَمَّا لِلْحَيِّ فَلَا إِلَّا الْبِرُّ وَ الصِّلَةُ
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws wrote to me: ‘As for the dead (parent), a good deed is ‘’ allowed, and as for the living one, no, except the righteous act and the helping’’.[1]
[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar V 71 – The book of relationships – Ch 2 H 39