Aslam

Praise be to Allah.We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn

‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah preserve him, who answered as follows:

, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and all his family

and companions. Janaazah prayer can be offered for him, so long as he

is presumed dead, because we go by what is apparent and most likely

to be the case. So his wealth may be inherited if the qaadi rules that

he is dead, and his wife should wait out the ‘iddah period, then she

is free to remarry – so the janaazah prayer can also be offered for

him. And Allaah knows best.