Collection: Sahih Muslim

Sahih Muslim 9360

He who offered prayer for the dead, for him is the reward of one qirat, and he who attended its burial, he would have two qirats as his reward. And qirat is equivalent to Uhud.

Sahih Muslim 9350

Make haste at a funeral; if the dead person was good, it is a good state to which you are sending him on; but if he was otherwise it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves.

Sahih Muslim 9352

Hasten at a funeral, for if (the dead person) is good, you would (soon) bring him close to the good. And if it is otherwise, it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves.

Sahih Muslim 9353

He who attends the funeral till the prayer is offered for (the dead), for him is the reward of one qirat, and he who attends (and stays) till he is buried, for him is the reward of two qirats. It was said: What are the qirats? He said: They are equivalent to two huge mountains. […]

Sahih Muslim 9354

” two great mountains.” No mention is made of what followed (these words) ; and in the hadith transmitted by ‘Abd al- A’la (the words are):” till (the burial) is complete.” In the hadith transmitted by ‘Abd ar-Razzaq (the words are):” till he is placed in the grave.”

Sahih Muslim 9355

” He who followed it (the bier) till he (the dead) is buried.”

Sahih Muslim 9349

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) one day in the course of his sermon made mention of a person among his Companions who had died and had been wrapped in a shroud not long (enough to cover his whole body) and was buried during the night. The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) reprimanded (the audience) that a person was […]

Sahih Muslim 9343

I would keep it in order to shroud myself in it. He then said: If Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, would have desired it for His Apostle, he would have been shrouded with it. So he sold it and gave its price in charity.

Sahih Muslim 9344

I would be shrouded in it, but then said: How is it that I should be shrouded in it in which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was not shrouded! So he gave it in charity.