Muhammad bin Salmah محمد بن سلمة بن عبد الله الباهلي · Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I said: Messenger of Allah, I know the severest verse in the Qur'an. He asked: What is that verse. A'ishah? She replied: Allah's words: "If anyone does evil, he will be requited for it." He said: Do you know A'ishah, that when a believer is afflicted with a calamity or a thorn, it serves as an atonement for his evil deed. He who is called to account will be punished. She said: Does Allah not say: "He truly will recieve…

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not unveil your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of the living and the dead.

I prayed over a dead person along with Ibn 'Abbas. He recited Surat al-Fatihah and he said: This is the Sunnah.