just as the Qur’an explicitly declares: “Indeed, those whom you invoke apart from Allah are servants like yourselves” (al-A‘rāf 7:194), and, “If you call upon them, they do not hear your supplication …” (Fāṭir 35:14) to the end of the verse.

Therefore, the dead do not hear after they have died, except in the single instance established by textual evidence—as noted above—namely that the deceased hears the sound of footsteps. With this, the answer to this question is complete.