It is very important to pay the debts of the people who are dead, since this can relieve them of punishment in the grave.

After the death of the great scholar Almir Seyyid Hassan Bin Air, Seyyid Ali Al Husseini revealed in a dream to his son the amount of money which he owed to a person, and that he was in trouble due to this. When the amount of money was paid, he thanked his son for relieving all the pain and torture he was undergoing.

Another scholar Allamah al Noori relates that he was told by Amir seyyid Ali, that the latter in his dream saw his father and expressed his thanks and the relief he felt since he had been through a lot of trouble. When the scholar asked his father why he had been through turmoil, his father revealed that it was because of a certain amount of money that he owed somebody, and mentioned the name of that person.

On going through the accounts of his father he became even more surprised on not finding the name of this person in his father's account books. The only way was to ask the person whose name had been mentioned by his father. The man when approached said that, at the death of the scholar's father he had inquired whether there was a mention of his name in the list of people his father owed, but he had been told by the man who was handling the accounts that there was no mention of his name. The man went on to say that he had been upset and regretted that he had not made a written contract as a proof of the money owed to him by his father. However after sometime he chose to forgive this matter and overlook it. (DAR AL SALAAM)