Prayer: As Eldest Son, Must I Investigate My Father’s Missed Prayers, or Is He Responsible to Inform Me?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: As Eldest Son, Must I Investigate My Father’s Missed Prayers, or Is He Responsible to Inform Me?

English:

Question #542:

I am the eldest son of the family. Is it obligatory for me to investigate and acquire information from my father about his missed prayers so that I can perform them for him? Or should he inform me of the numbers outstanding and if he does not, what will my duty be?

Answer #542:

It is not obligatory for you to investigate, but it is obligatory for the father to perform them while he is alive or, if he could not, to specify it in his will. In any case, it is a duty of the eldest son, after the father’s death, to perform fasts and prayers he is certain his father missed.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer